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...broad, cobblestone boulevard stands a cluster of trim modern apartments; at the other rises a glass-and-steel office building. In between lies "the Raper"-Europe's greatest and gaudiest fleshpot. The Reeperbahn of Hamburg's Sankt Pauli district strings more sin along its garishly lighted main drag and crooked side streets than ten Tijuanas or 16 Sohos...
...Peter Pan among cities. It never wanted to grow up into a capital, stubbornly resists every government scheme to make it function like one, and does its best to ignore the 200,000 additional citizens who have settled in Bonn itself and a score of towns and villages that cluster around it. "Bonn," says Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid, "is not a metropolis. It's an a-polis, a non-city...
...second and third floors will be primarily for studying, with a cluster of faculty offices and seminar rooms facing the inner courtyard. Study alcoves, lining the outer edge of the building, will be broader and less deep than those in the present library. The alcoves will be furnished with various combinations of individual desks and comfortable chairs. The penthouse will include poetry room, colloquium, and music library, along with a kitchen and a coffee lounge. Its outer balcony will offer scenic Cambridge from many perspectives, and an inner terrace with tables will border the courtyard...
...Surely there has never been so large a cluster of egregious flops in the span of a couple of years," he declares in a sweeping judgment on the recent works of such eminent names as Katherine Anne Porter, Mary McCarthy, Bernard Malamud and James Baldwin. "There are various ways to declare the death of the novel: to mock it while seeming to emulate it, like Nabokov or John Barth ... or to explode it, like William Burroughs, to leave only twisted fragments of experience and the miasma of death...
...Lyndon leaped up on the Secret Service's open car. He pulled Lady Bird up with him and cried to the multitude, "Meet the lady of my life!" Again, in front of Holy Angels parish school, he grabbed a bullhorn and, paraphrasing John Kennedy, he shouted to a cluster of kids: "Ask not what we can do for you, but what you can do for your country...