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Wodehouse's comedies take place in a Never-neverland of fin-de-siecle English aristocracy, where a young man like Bertram Wooster has nothing to do but go to his club, visit his aunts in the country, and fall in and out of love, a world in which the greatest crime is to knock off a bobby's hat during Race Week at Oxford, and the greatest calamity is to find oneself engaged--a sort of Importance of Being Earnest world, but without Wilde's malice. Though Wodehouse has other sets of characters who live in this world, none have...
There are also loony flights of fancy: the world as understood by Bertram Wooster. In one of Wodehouse's few topical allusions. Bertie and his Aunt Dahlia muse on Jeeves' statement that, "If steps are not taken shortly through the proper channels, half the world will soon be standing on the other half's shoulders...
Meeting with Radcliffe students at Bertram Hall last night, Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, said that the issue of a women's center is "worth investigating. I'm sorry it had to start this way." Bunting said she offered the basement of Putnam House (the old financial aid building, located in the Radcliffe Yard) to RUS last September "for any activity," but RUS never took the initiative...
NiMH reported, however, that in California, which was first to experience "the onslaught of drugs," marijuana use may well have "crested." In San Mateo County, for example, seventh-and eighth-graders smoked less pot in 1970 than in 1969. Dr. Bertram Brown, director of NiMH, believes that the decline may well presage similar decreases in marijuana use elsewhere in the next few years...
...Tenth District, Bertram Yaffe, an antiwar Democrat, met an expected defeat at the hands of two-term Republican Congresswoman Margaret Heckler. After seesawing in the returns all night, Yaffe conceded at 8 a. m. yesterday, urging his supporters to continue working for peace candidates...