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Some, dressed in cutaway coats and bathing trunks, are dunked in swimming pools. In one ceremony, an upperclassman set a ball on a freshman's head and tried to knock it off with a hockey stick in the William Tell manner. He missed, and the victim suffered a brain concussion. An Amsterdam freshman told how 230 half-naked foetuses were jammed into a cellar and drenched with beer while upperclassmen walked on their heads; then the freshmen were forced to make their way out through a slender passageway called "the uterus...
Teacher in a Cutaway. Brook got some of his first lessons in technique from a character in Manhattan who made his precarious living by doing oil blowups of photo portraits. "He seemed a real artist," Brook recalls, "in a cutaway and striped trousers, working his little brush at breakneck speed. He would produce anything you could imagine-a battleship, a seascape-with dazzling facility." At 16, after a bout with polio that fortunately left no traces, Brook was painting ancient statuary at Pratt Institute; at 17 he enrolled at the Art Students League where in time he became a member...
...best shows. Here kids can poke their arms into plastic sleeves to see how heavy a grapefruit is on Mars, spin on a platform by tilting a giant gyroscope, make wave patterns in water tanks, and watch a 40,000-member ant colony go busily about its cutaway civic activities...
...village of mud and palm-thatch houses; a group of white-shirted intellectuals talking on a street corner at night are badgered for a cigarette by a man dressed up for an evening stroll in a top hat, blue-striped pajama bottoms, and a pair of torn, cutaway tails that he has found somewhere. And on the northwestern plains, Masai warriors swoop down on a village and take the cattle, intent on reacquiring the earth's bovine population, which their religion teaches them belongs exclusively to them...
...Trumpeter Bob Wallis. 27, gave up a career as a marine engineer to lead his Storyville Jazzmen into the trad boom, dressed in Stetsons and cutaway jackets and looking like the fallout from a Buttermilk Sky. Most trad jazz goes back only 35 years or so. but the Storyville septet has a bestselling version of Mozart's Alia Turca...