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...scene in the historic Old Campus, though, reflected the school's profound respect for academic tradition, with varicolored academic robes and hats, the glittering mace of the university, heraldic flags, brassy fanfares and the gloomy crenellated battlements of old buildings visible beyond the tall elms. Mingling with the smell of fresh-cut lawns were whiffs of another kind of grass-pot. A few of the 2,420 robed graduates wore white armbands on their sleeves to protest the war and the draft, and two students held up a sheet bearing the legend...
...shark-calling technique is an outgrowth of his studies of fish behavior financed by the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation. After starting his research on North Bimini in 1965, he proceeded on the assumption that fish communicate better acoustically than by sight or smell. Sound, after all, is carried farther in water than in the air, and three or four times as fast...
...couple to be the only, the original man and woman on earth. After lyrically celebrating the pleasures of lovemaking, Woiwode begins softly terrorizing paradise. Ghostly presences appear progressively more foreboding: the stuffed animals on the wall, the mice in the piano, night tappings at the window, dead birds, the smell of carrion. Above all, there are intruding memories: her dead parents, his live ones; the half-forgotten other lovers...
Last year, we felt powerful, that we could do anything. We marched on the Pentagon in October, and I remember the sky sulphurous with the smell of teargas and smoke in the air. In March the President was deposed and the war was over (something about no bombing in North Vietnam). People worked for McCarthy, who lost by only a little in New Hampshire but by a lot in the Democratic convention. Still, it was wonderful to feel that you could get things done. And in May there was Columbia. Earlier, we sat in against a Dow Chemical Company recruiter...
...hostile reception of his travels thus far. A helicopter hovered protectively over the gray Mercedes carrying the New York Governor as it inched through back streets to avoid the mobs. The students fought police with bricks and stones. Stores, banks and schools shut down, traffic was paralyzed, and the smell of tear gas wafted over Ecuador's capital of Quito...