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...Joanna Hanes, declares that "social kissing is more a Northern, sophisticated fad that seems to be moving south." In fact, like the Second Great Awakening of the 19th century, the epidemic of social kissing has persisted for some years and touched almost every section of the country. In Boston, Beacon Hill ladies can be seen rubbing cheeks at their clubs. Among usually subdued Midwesterners, the custom is growing, although one partygiver in Chicago admits: "Once when I kissed a fellow on the lips, he nearly had a heart attack. He was afraid of getting germs and he wiped his mouth...
...replied Fundamentalist Presbyterian Carl Mclntire. In his Christian Beacon, he offered an ingenious exegesis of the Cana account: "Jesus Christ never drank any fermented wine, neither did he ever make fermented wine. What Jesus did at the marriage of Cana was to make out of water the finest nonintoxicating wine that perhaps was ever made. The various combinations of the fruits of the vine can produce some delicious non-fermented drinks...
...cultural gap that books or television can't meet. A lecture provides a chance to hear from people who could never make it into print or onto the air. Sure, 30 or 40 curious people will go and listen to Bob the Bagman, a twenty year veteran of Beacon Hill bumming, discourse on techniques of street survival--but who would publish him? (you can hear and see Bob this Sunday, Jan 16, at 7 p.m. at the Stone Soup Society, 313 Cambridge...
...Homecoming of Harold Pinter. Laughs and mystery at the Lyric Stage, 54 Charles St., Beacon Hill, Boston. Showing Fridays and Saturdays at 8 and Sunday matinees at 3. For info call...
...hard to draw lessons from Andy Puopolo's death; its senselessness and brutality need no further clarification. But it is not at all hard to draw lessons from his life, for he was a beacon of light and optimism for all who had the fortune just to come into contact with him. To his family, and to all who mourn him, The Crimson extends its deep sympathy, and expresses its conviction that all whose lives he touched are better for having known...