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...almost envy that necessity as I sit here with a dozen books scattered over my desk, a sales slip marking the first or second or fourth page of each of them...
...almost envy that necessity as I sit here with a dozen books scattered over my desk, a sales slip marking the first or second or fourth page of each of them...
...this the fact that Penn has won the varsity event at Syracuse for the past three years, and should win it again this weekend, the fact that Western crews have tended to slip out of national prominence in recent years, as evidenced by their lack of success at the I.R.A. as well as at the Olympic trials, and the fact that Penn traditionally rows less well in June than in May, and it seems fairly obvious, from a competitive standpoint, why Harvard stays away...
Once it was Greenwich Village. Then it was Chelsea, Coenties Slip and the Bowery. Now the place to be, if you are a young New York artist with nowhere to go but up, is the city's newest bohemia: a dingy, littered area of 19th century factory buildings called SoHo (because it is south of Houston Street). Before the '60s, few outsiders braved SoHo's trash and traffic except architecture buffs, who admired the area's Italianate cast-iron facades. But for some 2,000 to 3,000 artists today, the neighborhood has become a last...
...draft he woos a black woman with a large family, tries to flee to Canada, and attempts to convince an Army examiner that he is a raving queer. When none of the dodges work, he enlists in the Marines and becomes more gung-ho than John Wayne, only to slip back to his spaced-out civilian soul when he is pronounced psychologically unfit. The only implication left is that antiwar demonstrators can be mechanically switched...