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Little magazine post-war prose suffers the same division, except it's a gap between old and new. The old: the grand-children of Twain and illegitimate sons of Hemingway who have come to confuse the simple sentence with literature and the monosyllable with wisdom--the crude words and rugged realism of men's magazines and college sophomores. This species of literature is dying along with the subconscious-childhood reverie. The new: Jack Kerouac's bastardization of the picar-esque tradition, the hipster vocabulary, the mystic meaningless words attached to a generation, where motion is meaning and stasis is death...
...This coal is too fine for householders' grates, but the British National Coal Board thinks that it can now boost output of domestic coal high enough to meet the expected demand. The British also believe that the industrial coal recession is temporary, and that Europe's "energy gap" will, in the long run. assure plenty of furnaces for Britain's coal...
...present, Harvard is the only school to request a $5 application fee at the graduate level. Other schools are considering this method of limiting multiple applications. By discouraging prospective students from over-applying, the gap between the number accepted and the number actually registering may be diminished, Elder suggested...
Goalie Dick MacKinnon is also graduating, leaving a major gap, but Pyle says that junior Chris Stone is "expected to come through" to take MacKinnon's place...
Although Yale was in the lead most of the way, the Crimson shell was never far behind. The varsity jumped ahead at the start but the Elis closed the gap in the first quarter of a mile and slowly ground out a lead. With one half mile to go they were ahead a half a length...