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Four pranksters almost forced freshmen to scoop their breakfasts off the floor yesterday. Hiding in the Union until after closing time, the unidentified prowlers snatched over 1,000 trays from the first floor and hid them in the attic...
Records in the Attic. Congress duly took it all back two days later (with an unrecorded standing vote calculated to insulate backsliders against the hoots of their Irish constituents), and the world was left once more with the larger problems of international life. But there was no denying that it had been a fine, nostalgic performance, though a little cracked-something like John McCormack singing "The minstrel boy to the war is gone" on a record which had been in the attic since...
...preposterous Dr. Velikovsky . . . says he needs "more learning." What he really needs is a pinch of Attic salt. The famous passage about the sun standing still for Joshua needs no interplanetary cataclysm to explain it. It carries its explanation right in the text . . . The chronicler, writing ancient history, comes upon the Book of Jashar and quotes from it the couplet...
Most of the pictures on the walls looked like more or less distorted reflections of each other. Jackson Pollock's nonobjective snarl of tar and confetti, entitled No. 14, was matched by Willem DeKooning's equally fashionable and equally blank tangle of tar and snow called Attic. If their sort of painting represented the most vital force in contemporary U.S. art, as some critics had contended...
Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth. O God! O Montreal...