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...grown to a glossy 992-page behemoth. Hundreds of applications for summer jobs pour in each spring, as Harvard's would-be Tom Ripleys plan summers of bliss on the Continent. But casual dress and a torrent of daiquiris give way to grueling work, internal struggles, marijuana brownies, la cucuracha! and the Let's Go libido. So the staffers tell FM. Despite the tangles that come from the dubious mixing of business with undergraduate pleasure, Let's Go writers and editors for the most part praise the organization, and the resulting travel books take on a unique feel--aimed...

Author: By Adam M. Taub, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Lush Life at Let's Go | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...spoken by Maurice Denham, are wonderfully satisfying. And Matyas Seiber's rousing anthem, Beasts of England-in which Imitator Denham sings a dozen voices at once, a roaring chorus of many sound tracks blended into one-is a proletarian hymn ("Something," as Orwell imagined, "between Clementine and La Cucuracha") that can make the most conservative heart go pitapat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 17, 1955 | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

Then old Major cleared his throat and taught his followers a song, "a stirring tune, something between Clementine and La Cucuracha," which the animals found as moving as some people find Arise, Ye Prisoners of Starvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dictatorship of the Animals | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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