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Several persons conjectured that the Ibis escaped while being shown the Lampoon building. At least one cynic suggested it was frightened off by "that silly castle." No one in Cambridge seems to know where the bird was heading when it flew off. It was last seen traveling "in the direction of Maine," according to one observer...
...tale to startle the cynic, to make the disbeliever pause in his mockery, to brighten the faces of the faithful. The Red Sox, the lowly Boston Red Sox, are leading the American League going into tonight's game...
Dirty Deal. Philosophically, Jones has always been that most tiresome of fel lows, a proudly ignorant cynic who is convinced that the inscrutably stacked deck of the universe will always produce a dirty deal. But as a writer, at least in Eternity, he had rare storytelling power. Prizes (the 1952 National Book Award) and plenty of cash (mainly from Hollywood) gave Jones a mobility he might have used to grow beyond his army themes. Unhappily his latest book. The Thin Red Line, like those preceding it, has not reached out to new subjects or ideas. Instead, it turns back again...
...McCarthy, David Beck, Bernard Goldfine, allegedly Communist Hollywood writers and Confidential Magazine. But Williams has chosen instead to devote his first book to fervent advocacy of the cause that, he says, attracted him to his clientele in the first place: the civil liberties of society's pariahs. A cynic might wonder if these pariahs most often find a friend in Attorney Williams when they have publicity value, fat wallets, or both. But in this book, Williams takes the high road...
...collegians' urge to go on studying stems from all sorts of reasons, and staying in the academic womb is apparently the least of them. Beating the draft is no prime mover, either-although one Princeton cynic did remark last week, "I'm doing graduate work at my fiancée's school next year so I can marry her this summer and avoid the draft." But far more pervasive is the idea that the B.A. is neither sufficient as a guarantee of a good job-big-company recruiters increasingly demand M.A.s-nor as a certificate of intellectual satisfaction...