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...never much on the shelves. I don't see how they could have made a business out of the store," Regina Boyland '78-4, a resident of Mather House, said yesterday, adding that a lot of House residents would rather walk up to Cahaly's which had a "nicer atmosphere" for their supplies...
...world outside for the sane world of the crazies. When Johnny runs into the bin at the end of the musical, well, it's just as easy, given the build-up, to assume that he's going in there because his buddies are there, the people who've been nicer to him than anybody else. War? What war? This is a musical, baby, and the soldiers might just as well dance off into the sunset. Something essential gets lost, but somehow it doesn't matter. Unless, as with most musicals, you muse at length...
...energy that has been proceeding in the city for many months. A plausible case can be made that New York City-which the outside world generally takes to mean Manhattan, not air of the city's five heterogeneous boroughs-is a livelier, pleasanter, more exciting and simply nicer place to be now than it has been in years. The fact is especially remarkable considering that with radical cutbacks in municipal services (a total of 60,000 workers), things like park benches, potholes and children's education receive less attention than they did in the past...
Such detailed anecdotes keep Perrin from falling victim to his "Wooden Bucket Principle": "By this I mean a tendency to imagine almost anything in the country as simpler and more primitive and kind of nicer than it really...
Still, some of it is simpler and nicer, and these aspects are generously extolled...