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...Library, but intends it for part of our education, it should correct its choice of books. For when the frenzy of Washington jingoism succeeds in permeating the Yard there will no longer be any reason for remaining at Harvard. We can then go home, curl up on the couch with that useful anesthetic, Out of the Night, and remain lost in a morbid phantasmagoria while we await the postman with his message from the Department of War. Leo Marx '41 Editor of the Harvard. Progressive...
After failing in an attempt to enter the room through the door, the fire-fighters broke in through the windows. When the smoke had cleared from the room, a burning couch and the other furnishings were carried out, and the fire quickly burned itself...
Just as engaging as his people are Bemelmans' animals and still lifes. He saw an agonized baroque statue of Jesus crowned with a Shirley Temple wig; a native painting of a waterfall which resembled "noodle soup running down over a green couch"; a sloth's "unfinished face"; a fly, the description of whose trajectories is one of the most delectable pieces of animal-writing in literature...
...church's stained-glass windows were broken. In Weymouth, Mass, an automobile rolled off a jack, imprisoned the mechanic beneath it. In Fairfield, Me. a horse fell down. In Rockport, Mass, an astute dachshund named Lieda, thinking a heavy truck was passing, jumped up on a couch to look out the window...
Willkie took then, as he still does, his thirst for argumentative ideas into his reading. He has always had great difficulty in finishing a book. A footnote in the first chapter sends him to another book, a second reference to a third, until, lounging on a couch, shoes off, he wallows happily in cascades of books. He has never read books in the usual sense-he argues his way through them...