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President Nixon sends a telegram to Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan in New Dehli: WHILE YOU ARE THERE COULD YOU HANDLE THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS STOP HOW IS THE WHETHER STOP IT IS FINE HERE STOP THE PRESIDENT. Testifying before a crowded Congressional committee, Synthetics specialist and rat expert Dr. Robert P. Geyer reminds the representatives, "Rats might be under control but Derek Bok is still at large!" In his long overdue report on cohabitation, Lowell Housemaster Zeph Stewart finds that "only about one out of every 3.5 students sleeps in a room not her own." "The statistics belie...
...much aged and saddened Dr. Robert P. Geyer tells reporters that John Lindsay's mayoralty defeat was not only a tremendous setback to synthetics and to him personally, but an irreparable loss for rats the world over. "If you won't nullify Rat Control." Former Justice William O. Douglas tells the Supreme Court, "at least grant these rodents the right to lawful assembly." After the bearing Douglas confides at a press conference: "Now they want to control rats, next it'll be the Jews--you know what that means." The elder justice returns to Alaska to write a book about...
Blake needed no assisting rhythm section. The highly audible rat-tat-tat of his heels filled that bill. His technique is in the percussive, pedal-heavy ragtime tradition-bouncing, thump-pah bass and ornate, syncopated melody-but it is nonetheless astounding in its flawlessly striding left hand and daringly acrobatic right. Blake still practices two hours a day; he works so much on the eve of a concert that "I get sick of hearing myself." Midway through a delirious rendition of his brand-new Classical Rag, Blake cried out, "Aha, it sounds good...
...status drilled into the world audience by decades of institutional art-worship. No matter how nugatory an event or object seems, it is nevertheless special, being art. And within this protective box, the conceptual artist-as Sculptor Robert Smithson acerbically put it-disports himself "like a B.F. Skinner rat doing his 'tough' little tricks...
...Rat Rally. To force the integration of local hospitals in the mid-'60s, Hobson one day walked into an all-white ward in the Washington Hospital Center and calmly climbed into an empty bed. That stunt won him a brief stint in jail-but also the eventual integration of the hospital. If his bluster was good, his bluff was even better. Perhaps Hobson's most famous episode was the great rat scare. To dramatize the rodent problem in ghetto housing, he threatened almost daily to release hundreds of rats in fashionable Georgetown. He drove through Washington...