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...moral" with which Aesop ended all his fables. There is a great deal more satisfaction in actually doing something than there is in just admiring something someone else has done. Everyone has heard of Rembrandt, but who knows or cares about John Jones, who spends crates of crud to cross the ocean and gaze uncomprehendingly at his pictures...

Author: By Art Hopkins, | Title: Art Hopkins: The Rough, Rugged Ritual | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...PRODUCTION of Pirates of Penzance which opened at Agassiz last night is a lot like the claws of a Maine lobster: there are a few enjoyable morsels buried inside, but you have to wade through a pile of crud to get at them. The Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players have patched together the most remarkably uneven performance they have given in recent years...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: G and S Sunken Vessel The Pirates of Penzance at Agassiz until next Saturday | 12/5/1970 | See Source »

...with or without Maddox, should be in Sunny Point by this Friday. As an editorialist in the Washington Daily News pointed out: "There is something perverse about the grand old American habit of using oceans and rivers as convenient dump holes for all manner of poisonous crud. There must be a better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: GB Or Not GB? | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...shouldn't President Pusey be forced to stand in line and take the crud that's served in student cafeterias?" asked Henry D. Aiken, former Harvard professor of Philosophy, in a New York Times interview published yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Henry Aiken Hits Pusey, Calls Harvard Unfriendly | 1/29/1969 | See Source »

There's a lot of that Santha Rama Rau crud in the front of the book about old Joe's family and how they came to India from Poland or Lithuania and all. His mother is always telling Joe to tuck his goddam shirt in, but she's mostly wrapped up in all the swell work she's doing for the Bombay chapter of the Hadassah and worrying about her daughters marrying some Buddhist. His father-Sir Abraham for Chrissake-is a King's Counsel, a lawyer who's only interested in making money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Catcher in the Rice | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

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