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...coast to Ports-mouth Naval Prison in New Hampshire. Given a week and travel pay, they buckle their guns and catch the bus for Washington, handcuffing the thieving menace, who would be in tears if he weren't so sluggishly dreamy and scarred by the jeers of boot camp and adolescence...
...imagined. Each month for the last year or so has brought a new book calculated to shock, titillate, and endear these brilliant perverts to out hearts. Lytton Strachey's fascination with the eroticism of the ear, John Maynard Keynes's penchant for the hand, and G. Lowes Dickinson's boot fetishism have all been the subject of recent studies. At the center of it all stands Virginia Woolf, whose sexuality threatens to become a serious literary question. Her nephew Quentin Bell, in his otherwise admirable biography, claimed she was frigid; now Nicolson publishes fairly conclusive evidence to the contrary. This...
...huge grin, did "Willie" Whitelaw often begin his morning conferences with Ulster's disputatious politicians. Marveled John Hume, Minister of Commerce in Ulster's new coalition, last week: "You went in angry to see him, and you always came out wondering why you never got the boot in." Added Deputy Chief Executive Gerry Fitt, leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party: "He had an effective English slice of Irish charm...
PHILIP SCHORSH, son of a German tycoon, hippie-radical, deportee from the United States, Harvard Business School student, and cause celebre, was one of the more bizarre luminaries in the Harvard firmament a couple of years back. A doctoral candidate given the boot for not even beginning his thesis, Schorsh struck back by claiming to be writing a thesis on what was wrong with the Harvard Business School...
...began to win as much as they had lost in the past. The Mets just lost their charm. They won enough to disappoint people, and ordinary mediocrity doesn't draw fans. They began to play like the Cubs, and started to look like them around the roster to boot. And then they stole the League and the Series...