Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toilet-stall world of Andrew Holleran's first novel. The title, of course, comes from Yeats' "Among School Children," as does the epigram, and the book emerges from Yeats, admixed with desire: desire, the force of the gyre spinning Malone and Sutherland and their coterie, binding them to the center till it scatters them like a merry-go round gone haywire; desire, the lesser mythology in the absence of religion, that turns the X's on a suicide note from crosses to kisses, and a night at Les Mouches to the Beatific Vision; desire, that which makes them dance...
...left when love is gone. Dancing...There is no love in this city...only discotheques." Dancing becomes the central motif of Holleran's book and his characters' lives, the all-important Yeatsian ceremony, the substitute liturgy. They dance at the Twelfth Floor of the Carlisle and in the Garment Center after hours and in Hackensack; they live for love, make careers of it, die from it. Like dervishes, they dance for God; but God is Frank Post's pectorals...
Dartmouth--Amy Nelson 5 1-3 11; Laurie Center 1 0-0 2; Gail Koziara 9 1-2 19; Kathie Delisle 2 3-4 7; Linda Duenzo 7 4-5 18; Sue Brooks...
...Green soon jumped back into the game with 11 straight points. Freshman center Gail Koziara sparked the comeback with her ambitious play under the boards...
...added that she was particularly pleased with the play of freshman center-forward Karen Smith. Smith, starting in her first game with the varsity, played like a veteran. Although she doesn't have the size of freshman standout center, Elaine Holpunch, Smith is still tough under the boards...