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...ostracized by other white students. Racially mixed groups come into the cafeteria without being hissed, and Negroes use the student union grill without being particularly noticed. Meredith often ate at the cafeteria, but never ventured into the grill, a more informal "hangout" for a number of the close-knit cliques on campus...
...Pageant of the Beasts was an in-joke, written for the benefit of a tightly knit little in-group, and virtually meaningless to anyone else. The beasts of the tale were the actors, administrators, and friends of the Loeb Drama Center. The pageant was the Loeb's great Shakespeare Festival, a project which had already alienated or attracted enough people to buy up Beasts' full press...
During the first few years of the Loeb's existence, Chapman's emphasis on professionalism created a tightly knit clique of older actors (including, it is true, a few precocious undergraduates, who worked often in Loeb productions and quickly became the in group. Other students were just visitors to the Loeb; these people saw themselves as permanent residents...
...McCormack, is a former Massachusetts attorney-general. He hasn't held office since 1962, when he gave up the attorney-generalship to run against Edward M. Kennedy '54 for the U.S. Senate. He was badly beaten in a convention and primary. A loss this year might force his tightly-knit organization to unravel. To keep it going and to keep himself politically alive McCormack would have to find another office. Boston elects a Mayor in 1968 and McCormack could conceivably try for that if he wanted to challenge Mayor John F. Collins or if Collins wanted to step down...
...some order to the island's spectacular urbanization. "When Newsday was founded," he recalls, "most of the island was a series of independent villages with very little interest in one another's problems." Acting as a kind of Long Island "town meeting," Newsday, the Captain feels, helped knit the communities together; after an energetic Newsday campaign, for example, a bi-county planning agency was established last year. To Captain Harry, Newsday is nothing so much as Long Island's "single common denominator"-a role that is both demanding and profitable...