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Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success...
...seem a mere dot on a theoretical horizon, but you will eventually leave here, most likely with a degree. And when "that dirty gray turmoil" of the real world swirls around you, clouding and obscuring the friendships that have been formed here, it seems likely that we will look back on this place with glasses colored pink with memories...
SENIOR WRITERS: Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, Robert Hughes, Richard Lacayo, Eugene Linden, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Jill Smolowe, Richard Zoglin...
Assistant Editors: Tam Martinides Gray (Research Chief), Ariadna Victoria Rainert (Administration), Oscar Chiang, Mary McC. Fernandez, Lois Gilman, Valerie Johanna Marchant, Adrianne Jucius Navon...
...soap, three packs of cigarettes. No meat. In May it was rice, beans, sugar and coffee; no oil; no soap; no cigarettes; two cans of beer. No meat. Yet Eugenio will not be rafting. He is a master of resolviendo -- the Cuban art of barter, the cut corner, the gray market. His wife works in a cigarette factory and brings home unofficial samples. With the purloined packs, Eugenio heads for the local government bodega to find the old man who sits on the sidewalk outside to trade illegally in yuca. He sells his yuca for 10 pesos...