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...will still be in the majority, but female matriculates are slowly closing the gap. Women students will probably compose 48 per cent of the summer student body, Crooks said...
Already in place were six sunken, 5,000-ton concrete caissons developed from types used by the Allies in World War II as assault jetties at Normandy beachheads. Four tugs heaved at the seventh caisson, precisely long enough to fill the remaining 140-ft. gap, fighting the surging tide to keep it poised over its eventual resting place atop an asphalted nylon mat that anchors the shifting sands of the sea's bottom. Precisely at the moment of the tide's turn, when the water was completely still, 25 workmen aboard Caisson 7 frantically twirled at the watercocks...
...This gap between appearance and reality, pretension and performance plagued the Age of Reason (roughly 1657-1757) and made it an age of paradox. The age professed skepticism and credulously embraced charlatans like Count Cagliostro, who had a yellow pill that would keep one permanently young, à la Dorian Gray. The age prattled of liberty, but the man the intellectual French Encyclopedists hailed as a philosopher king, Frederick the Great, was described by one British observer as "the completest tyrant God ever made. I had rather be a post horse than his first Minister, or his brother, or his wife...
...Romanov husband was impotent, mad and sadistic, and his favorite pastime was to play with his toy soldiers or flog a dachshund suspended by a rope from the ceiling. "In later life," writes Nicolson, in a sly reference to her 30-odd lovers, "she did much to repair this gap in her experience." In later life she was also a great lip servant of liberty ("Liberty is the core of everything; without it there would be no life"). The French philosopher Diderot once shook her till her shoulders were black and blue to get her to apply a little enlightenment...
...cannot stop running. Purchasing the French rights for Aub's "biography," simply titled Jusep Torres Campalans, Gallimard pulled out the stops. Needing a few sketches from J.T.C.'s "middle period," the publisher asked Aub to fill the gap. In moments, on the back of office stationery, he did. A big first printing of 5,000 is selling well, aided by Gallimard's deft exploitation of France's latest art world celebrity. Had he lived, J.T.C. would have been gratified...