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...bottom of a corpulent cutie, the label on a bottle of liquor, the barroom floor, all bore the enigmatic letters: CPLY. It is the maddeningly unpronounceable nom de plume of William Nelson Copley, a Manhattan artist-collector-philanthropist who says he slipped the vowels from his name out of deference to John Singleton Copley, the 19th century American painter...
Expressing the change in the Faculty another way, a conservative caucus member noted, "When I see the wife of a colleague in the Square the first thing I ask myself is whether her husband is going to vote with us at the next Faculty meeting. What a colossal bore! Two years ago, I would be asking about his museum work, or his research...
...find the place all but deserted. One wounded Communist who had been left behind told about the staff's "getting on their bi cycles and Hondas and riding off" the day before. Left behind were five mimeograph machines, six typewriters and two rubber stamps, one of which bore the seal of the chairman of the National Liberation Front...
...ashes and been retired. The wave machine was impressive. For an awesome instant, impossible to determine, the emerald mass reverse curls and thrusts itself back over itself in mighty interference. But empty water quickly becomes tedious, so we hurried to the first fish of note, the orange Garibaldi. He bore little if any resemblance to the Italian nationalist, resembling rather a stationary section of antipasto. From Garibaldi we walked past "Oscar," who was gray, small, and obviously piqued at his home. Huntley told Oscar good-by, and asked me what this group of obscure hazel fish were. I answered "groupers...
...build low-cost housing for the poor, using assembly-line techniques. At the end of his life, he was talking about adding some form of pollution control to the demands that the U.A.W. will serve on the auto companies when bargaining begins this summer. Not all his enthusiasms bore fruit, but the respect that they won is illustrated by the list of eulogists at the memorial services for Reuther and his wife. They included Michigan's Senator Philip Hart, a leading spokesman for consumerism; Sam Brown, the Viet Nam Moratorium organizer; John Gardner, chairman of the National Urban Coalition...