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...week I looked for a job, but didn't find anything. I didn't know what I wanted to do, either. I went to a Manpower office and waited for a full day in its hot back room full of down-and-outers; I checked the Berkeley campus for work, and I even took a civil-service exam. Nothing seemed to work...
...MOVED OUT of the San Francisco apartment without letting either Barb or Ray know. I decided the environment was a little to polarized for me there, so I went over to Berkeley. I didn't have any money, although I had a few good books and three records: On the Threshhold of a Dream, by the Moody Blues, Deaf, Dumb and Blind, by Pharaoh Sanders, and Readings of James Joyce, including an original cut of Joyce reading from Finnegan's Wake...
...used my money to buy a meal and spend the night in Berkeley's only hotel, an old worn-down warehouse located in the small industrial section. It wasn't much better than sleeping in an alleyway, but it provided some shelter. Most of the people in there were drifting, just like...
Taylor was a shy, gangly graduate student, brilliantly inventive but a rarefied soul, who flunked out of his doctoral program at Berkeley only to be salvaged by a sympathetic adviser and then sent to New Mexico to work in a Government program there. He was 24. The year was 1949. Taylor discovered that his new job at Los Alamos was to make atomic bombs. He loved it. Thereafter his bomb-making genius confounded the elders in the temple...
...frogs in Aristophanes' comedy, sounds over Yale's Payne-Whitney Gym pool, it signifies that 21 young Yalies and New Haven townies skimpily clad in green fishnet tights are hitting the water. They fan out to the center of the pool and in a Busby Berkeley pinwheel formation circle the battered dinghy in which a wizened, whiskered Charon (Charles Levin) is poling across this Ivy League Styx. It is a moment of splashing good humor in this aquatic spoof of a spoof...