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...from that scene, the current battle cry of France's increasingly aggressive young Maoists was scrawled on a wall: "Pas de vacances pour les riches"-no vacations for the rich. A day after the Deauville raid, the Maoists threw a Molotov cocktail and started a small fire at a hotel in La Baule on the Brittany coast. On Bastille Day, they slashed hundreds of tires in Lourdes near the shrine of Bernadette...
...collective destiny reach to kill the screams of the alarm clock and grope for the girl (already fled), at that hour Habbakuk is pushing aside the rind of his grapefruit, sipping the dregs of his coffee, and rereading the telegram that sends him flying to New York by cocktail time, where he must perforce plug in his connections, drop his names, jiggle through a dance or two till he's in a position to float Valerie Corday onstage and steal away, leaving her twirling and whirling in a canned atmosphere of chatter and light...
...Grucnewald has not only overlooked the play's weaknesses, he has made them shine like a rotten mackerel. The whole produciton becomes a litany of praise for conventional values against the challenge of art and change as envisioned by a failed poet through three manhattans at a Grosse Point cocktail party. The conception of a production is the director's task and, if nostalgia is what Mr. Gruenewald thought the play was about, then he is guilty of mis-reading his text. Done in the way the Loeb has seen fit to do it, Ah, Wilderness is no better...
...Coop again. They get in all of Harvard's textbooks. Or at least most of the textbooks. Sometimes, The textbook department is on the top floor of the annex. To get there, go through the main building (trying not to be offended by the Harvard sweatshirts, T-shirts, garters, cocktail glasses, mugs, key rings, wallets, lampshades, desk blotters, and diapers on display) and cross the alley. Take the escalator to the top floor, where you will follow a series of highway signs to the section for Scan Lit 31 or Eng Sci 267x...
While members of younger classes cavorted and embraced in the lobby of the Harvard Club of Boston last night, the four classmates of 1900 sat in their seats, waiting patiently for the beginning of the cocktail hour...