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Undergraduates with a sleeping passion for becoming part of the least selective but most widely read branch of the CRIMSON's hierarchy -- THE CRIMSON SPORTS BOARD--should crawl through the snow tonight or Wednesday night and come to introductory meetings for the CRIMSON Spring Competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Sports Seeks Writers | 2/25/1969 | See Source »

Slowly the units of humanity began to crawl around the room, and one by one secrets of a lifetime poured out. Stories of lesbianism, impotence, divorces, affairs--there was no shortage of them. The boy's third partner was a big man, about 35 years old, who must have weighed 220 pounds. "I slapped my wife once," he said...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Big Sur, California: Tripping Out at Esalen | 2/10/1969 | See Source »

...their next exercise, John told them to close their eyes, crawl around the room, and touch. That was nice. While they all crawled around, hugging strangers, feeling arms and legs and hands and stomachs and feet, John lit some incense. There was only silence--the silence, and the drowsy, lovely smell of the incense, the bright morning sun, and a group of bodies which lost their ugliness when the boy shut his eyes. No words, no voices, no faces, only the bodies; and the boy liked that. He happily hugged everyone, everyone hugged him, and played with his hair...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Big Sur, California: Tripping Out at Esalen | 2/10/1969 | See Source »

...markedly improved in recent months. They are allowed to travel outside the capital again, and even such arch-revisionists as the Yugoslavs are treated with courtesy. Two years ago, the dependents of Soviet diplomats were evacuated as Red Guards spat on them at the Peking airport and made them crawl under portraits of Mao Tse-tung; now these Soviet citizens are returning. A recent complaint to India over an attack on the Chinese embassy in New Delhi was stern but matter-of-fact, and there was no counter-demonstration in Peking-in stark contrast to 1967, when at least twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Growing More Flexible? | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...Steinway concert grand. An embarrassed unease settled over the hall while a technician frantically made repairs. Finally, Horowitz completed the piece and responded to the thunderous ovation with four encores. Said the famed firm's president, Henry Z. Steinway: "Each time this happens I want to crawl into the woodwork." Soothed Horowitz: "It's like a flat tire-it can happen any time." The odds: once in every 5,000 performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 6, 1968 | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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