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From the wealthier suburbs, the long-hairs show up as well. This is what is left of the Brookline-breed hippies, but many of them seem to have turned to the New Wave as a supplement to the usual staple of Dead, Doors, and heavy metal. They dress differently: army jackets and head bands, Levis, no leather--much greasier: In addition to Marlboros, some are smoking Djarum clove cigarettes. The know all about slam dancing from reading Boston Rocker, but they dance near the outskirts of the real action, noticeably intimidated by Psycho's crowd...
Perhaps he is the man to put them there. Harvard hockey had its share of trash-can bangers, and this is a different breed of captain...
With the New Deal came the New Dealers, a breed unknown in the sleepy Southern town that Washington had been. Rosenman had urged Roosevelt to seek advisers not among the usual politicians and financiers but in the universities. Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter was now sending along a pack of bright and ambitious young lawyers who came to be known as the "happy hot dogs." Washington "is more entertaining and more lively than at any time since the war," the critic Edmund Wilson reported in the New Republic. "Everywhere in the streets and offices you run into old acquaintances...
ORLANDO BELONGS--with Ajax and Avalon--to a curious breed of proper nouns whose senses have passed over the centuries from the epic to the cheap and commercial. Once the name was instantly recognizable as the hero of Ariosto's 16th-century narrative poem; now it conjures up the strains of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon "Round the Old Oak Tree" and the sun-soaked giant mice of Disneyworld, Florida...
...BRITISH: In addition to being patriotic, Britons also appear to be truly a happy breed. Of those surveyed, 95% insist that they are "quite happy" or "very happy." But there also seem to be contradictions in the way the British see themselves. They take more pride in their work (79%) than do those of the other countries, which seems strange in a nation renowned for bellicose trade unions, work stoppages, strikes and generally poor industrial relations. The British watch more television (20 hours a week) than anyone else (the Danes and Dutch read more newspapers). But they also prove...