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Richard Scarry should get an award for everything but his titles. His Best Make-It Book Ever! (Random House; $4.95) is nothing of the kind; it is merely the best of the year. Like his other amuse-yourself books, this fine, inventive paperback shows young readers hundreds of ways to brighten a rainy day or beguile the hours between Sesame Street and supper. This is a cut-and-paste book for all seasons: there are valentines to make, Halloween masks to wear, even Christmas decorations to festoon the tree-including a Santa Claus bird and a mouse on ice skates...
...number of students signed up for the fast may be misleading, however. About one fifth of 100 students questioned a the Freshman Union in a random survey last night had signed up for the fast but were eating dinner anyway, taking second servings from friends who were not participating in the fast...
Herewith some random thoughts on the Harvard sports scene, a milieu I chose to experience this fall strictly as a spectator and not as a journalist, something all you avid Crimson readers may have greatly appreciate...
Kosinski sees life that way... random, unconnected, and without design. He said, "The notion of a plot is fraudulent; there is no central plot to our lives." Denying the plot, the grand design, Kosinski concentrates on the incident, weaving his novels "around a system of conscious moments." The individual, by his very presence in those moments, creates whatever unity exists in life and becomes the "connective element...
...some of the texts could be eliminated without doing violence to the whole. And not only did the movement often bear a purely arbitrary relation to the music, but also it was internally inconsistent. There were occasional bland passages of traditional ballet figures, as well as moments of apparently random borrowing from other styles, such as Indian dance. Finally, the Harvard-Radcliffe choral groups, singing under crowded conditions, too often suffered from blurred pitch, particularly among the sopranos...