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First houses, then gardens, then animals, then man. The rich cannot create man, but they can toss a party for him. No passage in The Great Gatsby is more strangely moving than the list of party guests; the silly, nursery-rhyme names-Clarence Endive, Edgar Beaver, the Catlips-roll out like streamers. Yet Gatsby's parties were restrained compared with, say, the $200,000 "picnic" that T.C. and Phyllis Morrow of Houston threw last December for 1,000 friends, including Farrah Fawcett and John Travolta (who did not show), which featured a "country disco band." The emphasis of such...
...Burkhead Beaver Falls...
...their bodies. If they don't stay armed, beer mug in one hand, Simmons woman in the other, and stick together, they might be picked off one by one, left to rot in nurd purgatory. So they help each other out, getting the pledges dates, reminding a careless eager beaver that he's spending too much time under the high-intensity bulb with his organic chem models, and generally by being unnaturally cheerful...
...sitting around you. If it's the middle of winter, look at their hats. Don't be surprised if the language they are speaking is not English, or if the hats are big, black and furry. The language you hear is Russian, and the hats are most likely beaver, made in the USSR...
...wish that your generous report on Iowa's institute had given credit to the National Endowment for the Humanities, without whose funding the project here, at Beaver College and in the Bay Area would not have been possible. NEH has frequently been subjected to congressional criticism for allegedly being elitist in funding projects. But its support of writing demonstrates that NEH is strongly committed to serving a fundamental need in a democratic society...