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...committee meeting is usually an orderly way of not doing anything." One student member of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life discovered this statement printed on a Salada tea bag and in a moment of levity at a recent CHUL meeting, read it aloud...
Pulsating Artery. Although helped by his wife Sheryl and fellow students -who read aloud to him from medical texts-Hartman had moments of doubt. Once, in a physiology lab, he passed out while feeling the pulsating artery of an unconscious dog. Later he performed a tracheotomy-an incision into the windpipe-on another dog. In his final year, he accurately diagnosed ailments during clinical rounds-by relying, in part, on descriptions of symptoms by the patients themselves...
Arthur, the son, arrives home to find his relatives worshipping unconventionality and chaos. His grandmother sleeps on a catafalque; uncle Eugene sports tails and short pants; Stomil, his father, loudly promulgates a "revolution in aesthetics and morality;" and Stomil's wife Eleanor brags aloud of sleeping with the servant. And all the while young Arthur wears a conservative suit, scorns art and passionately urges his family to return to tradition and order...
...their gowns from Halston. The popular mode was the strapless wisp of chiffon skirt slit to the waist, that seemed about to fly off or shiver to the floor. Margaux Hemingway, looking like a jumbo stick of red-and-white peppermint candy, stumbled fetchingly over the names she read aloud; Elliott Gould, aware that practically every man present was betting on the results of the night's basketball game, produced the most popular aside of the night by muttering, when his partner intoned the ritualistic "and the winner is ... ," "Indiana 86, Michigan 68" into the mike...
Blydenburgh, whom students privately called "sneaky" but whom they addressed as "John," said later that he would "work to implement" any resolutions the negotiations produced and wondered aloud whether such a commitment would induce the students to leave the building...