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...local dialect; he became a regular. Successor Ludwig Erhard became another steady; the day he succeeded der Alte as Chancellor, Ria sent him a Wedgwood tureen brimful of his favorite split pea soup. Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, who prefers to dine at the Schaumburg, has not maintained the custom...
...Besides their legal responsibility for the University, the Governing Boards also write the Statutes which regulate Harvard's internal affairs. Because these rules are so general, each faculty's responsibility within the university has long been a matter of custom rather than regulation. After the controversy over ROTC, the Committee might wish to re-write the Statutes of clarify the role of the faculties and their relations with the Governing Boards. The Statutes should probably also be revised to contain any new provisions for selecting members of the Corporation and Overseers; these reforms can now be made only...
SEVERAL hundred of the blacks danced around us in a tremendous, floating wave of bodies as we slowly made our way toward Congo Square. Two hundred years ago, the local slaves were allowed by custom to dance in that square every Sunday. The slave drummers would pound out their ancestral rhythms while their brothers would chant and dance for a few hours of freedom...
...current editors appear to have been motivated more by custom than inspiration, and the whole ad-riddled package conjures up images of a handful of debatably amusing people faced with the unpleasant necessity of wrenching forth the old humor magazine again. Articles entitle i am yellow (curious) and the living cinema are to be disregarded as late deadline copy dependent solely and unsuccessfully on puns and props to compensate for lack of anything else. The rest of the copy features a rerun double-bill. Steve Kaplan '68 treats "boy meets girls" scenes à la Stanley Kramer, DeMille, Bergman...
Wolfe's personal breakthrough came a year later ("I don't mean for this to sound like 'I had a vision,'" he has written) when an Esquire editor removed the "Dear Byron" form a 49-page, free-flowing memo on custom cars that Wolfe had submitted. The memo, minus salutation but otherwise unedited, ran as "There Goes [Varoom! Varoom] That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby." Tom Wolfe had begun to deal with all that was extravagant and overpowering and vulgar in America on its own terms...