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Riesman called me yesterday to ask would it be feasible to move the Quad down to the car barn? (The "Quad," I'm sure you remember, refers to the three Radcliffe houses up near the Observatory.) Riesman kept going on about letting "the boys in Eliot House" keep an eye on some "tyrannous minority." I didn't quite catch the whole thing, but I promised to pass his suggestion...
...THIS weren't enough, Steinberg includes an appendix consisting of particularly cogent remarks by Rayburn, which he calls "Rayburnisms." It includes profundities like "The size of a man has nothing to do with his height" and "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build...
...other extreme, some of the artists are completely unknown in the U.S.: for example, a Dutch eccentric named Anton Heyboer, who lives with three women in a small dark barn north of Amsterdam and, the catalogue gravely assures us, "is timeless and unconscious, like an animal." Heyboer's life may have the gray neuralgic minimality of a character in Beckett, and the paintings-schematic outline figures scrawled on a white ground-look negligible. Quite different is the work of a Frenchman, Jean-Olivier Hucleux, who has developed a technique of such extreme verisimilitude as to make nearly...
...Even if you miss the party and all these advantages, the Fogg is still a good place to visit. The finest day of my freshman week was spent wandering through it, and since most of my courses have taken place there I've grown fond of the old barn. The museum is down the street from the Freshman Union, admission is free, and it's open 9-5; 2-5 on Sundays. The special exhibit right now is on Ben Franklin (for those of you from points south and west, they take the Bicentennial seriously in New England...
...wrecked Johnson's 45-ft. cabin cruiser, on which he and Hoffa had spent many pleasant hours fishing and talking union politics. George Roxburghy, a trustee of the local, was blinded in one eye by a shotgun blast. Otto Wendel, the local's secretary-treasurer, had his barn burned to the ground. A bomb exploded outside the house of an organizer for the local...