Word: brill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pictures...What if we get behind the scenes in the White House or St. Patrick's or the Vatican at Rome, we were to find precisely the same mixture of crass exploitation and petty cunning that you find when you walk into a theatrical agent's office in the Brill Building or 1590 Broadway...
...time John was ready to go to the University of Texas, his family had the money to pay his tuition. He became class president as well as a leader in debating, acting and the speech club. During one play rehearsal, Connally met a lovely freshman, Idanell (Nellie) Brill, who was playing a belly dancer. She has been his lady love ever since; they have three grown children...
...says Mary Beth Brill, an unabashed eighth-grader in the "new town" of Columbia, Md. Yet the Wilde Lake Middle School (grades 6 through 8), which she now attends, looks at first like a model of irresponsibility. It lacks neat classrooms, desks in rows, hands raised before speaking. Many of its 750 students sprawl in conversational clusters on the carpeted floors. They spend most of their time jumbled into three vast rooms called "pods" that hold 250 kids apiece. Since the pods are really one-room schoolhouses, Wilde Lake sounds like a hive of teen-agers doing their homework with...
...stacked books in the library for 17? an hour and doubled as campus representative for Beech-Nut chewing gum. Handsome and articulate, he ran for student body president-partly because the job paid $30 a month-and won. He completed his academic career by marrying the campus beauty, Idanell Brill, University Sweetheart, Cactus Beauty and Relay Queen...
Playing amateur archaeologist among the Aztec ruins, Brill tries to poke home the author's moral: Look at what becomes of people who worship gold, the "sun's excrement," instead of the sun. Alas, Bourjaily's real message is this: Nobody is likely to become extinct faster than American novelists trying to rework Lost Generation formulas in the age of Aquarius...