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...liberal ideals of the time were joined by a new cause, as the civil rights movement began to pick up steam during the 1950s. The attitude of most college students was one of concerned interest, but they expressed almost none of the spirit of activism. "I would sense that few of us knew much about Blacks, but there was a great sense of social duty. We were ripe for a civil rights movement," Rosenthal says. An important catalyst was the 1954 Supremem Court decision, Brown versus the Board of Education, which enlarged many of the issues for the Cambridge denizens...
...impatience when he says, "Being a poor misunderstood millionaire is not really a topic that intelligent people can discuss for very long." As a sturdy vehicle for Roth's comic genius, Zuckerman may show up again: Will he travel to Prague and discover Franz Kafka as an aged steam-bath attendant? Will he beget children who grow up to be literary critics? Will he win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and have to return it when everything in the book is discovered to be true? -By R.Z. Sheppard
...trying to say that the world is so rich and inexhaustible that writings can never keep up with it." Perhaps not, but Calvino makes a manly effort. It all begins with that traveler on that winter's night in a railroad station. Outside, much fog. Inside, much steam from the espresso machine. Suddenly the reader stumbles into the kitchen realism of a Polish novel featuring an onion being fried by a young woman called Brigd. Franz Kafka would be right at home...
Against Temple, the Crimson never got steam, falling behind early and never coming closer. Finn notched four goals and Cat Ferrante added two more in a losing cause...
...itself. Because the explosion literally blew the top off Mount St. Helens, its height has been reduced from 9,677 ft. to 8,300. Its shape has changed from a symmetrical, Fujiyama-like cone to a lopsided pyramid that resembles a broken tooth. Occasionally it still puffs smoke and steam...