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Cambridge hangers-on this vacation woke each morning (usually around 10 a.m.) in pleasant anticipation of the breakfast waiting for them in the Leverett House dining hall. It was a humble meal, coffee, toast, butter, jam, peanut butter, and juice, but it was there from 9 to 11 a.m. and certainly preferable to the dry tongue a late riser must live with now that the dining halls are back on their regular schedules...
...their mates who had gotten out of bed to use the bathroom. While he was out, the boys built a precariously high stack of soda bottles in the entrance of the room. The boy returned, his hand gliding against the wall for guidance; he crashed into the bottles and woke up everyone in the dorm...
Federal patronage hardly produced a renaissance in painting. But as murals turned up in post offices in Anadarko, Okla., Corning, Iowa, or Hartselle, Ala., a nation woke up to art. During the period, such artists as Rockwell Kent, Reginald Marsh and Grant Wood became popular favorites. In their shadow, other figures such as Ad Reinhardt, Arshile Gorky and Willem deKooning were learning and living under the same program. For the first time in U.S. history, the artist was not only officially recognized, but also Government approved...
...sound like myself (whatever that was) or tell me what to write about." What drove him away from Yeats, through periods of Eliot and Auden, and finally into the ambiguous arms of Anne Bradstreet, was in part, perhaps, a violent dissatisfaction with having nothing to say. "When I finally woke up to the fact that I was involved in a long poem, one of my first thoughts was: Narrative. Let's have narrative, and at least one dominant personality, and no fragmentation--in short, let's have something spectacularly not the 'Waste Land,' the best long poem...
Northeastern's lone goal three minutes into the second period sounded the alarm that woke Harvard from its exam break stupor. The Crimson was down only 40 seconds before Jack Garrity, still riding his goal scoring spree, punched in a rebound off a long shot by defenseman Bob Carr...