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Back in Cambridge, there is a spot that approaches the interest of a cultural museum. The Varsity Spa, located where Mt. Atiourn and Mass Ave converge, stays open only until three-thirty but is open to visitors from near dawn until then. The window sills are caked with dust and old boxes of Nabisco crackers: one wall of shelves is lined with random canned goods from previous decades. The Coca-Cola dispenser on the counter is a nostalgic relic-one of the old red shiny rounded numbers which looks like a Packard's back fender. The man and the wife...
...drinks only bottled water and claims Is Peace Inevitable? among his writing credits, possibly be a parody of Pundit Joseph Alsop? Buchwald denies it unconvincingly, but Alsop seems to think so. "If Joe's still angry after the run," suggests the humorist, "we'll meet some foggy dawn on the Ellipse behind the White House. Captured enemy documents at 50 paces...
...find the penitential message discomfiting. A pro-Indian movie, Little Big Man, starring Dustin Hoffman, has been filmed on Montana's Crow reservation. It portrays George Custer as a villain leading troops bent on genocide. Three books personalizing Indian alienation have won critical acclaim. A novel, House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa who teaches English at Berkeley, won a Pulitzer prize last year. Custer Died for Your Sins, by Vine Deloria, a Standing Rock Sioux, wryly details
...inevitability lights a fire beneath the "search" that all of us, in one form or another, have undertaken. We want something to show for our 75. or whatever, years when they are behind us. The Supermarket Racer option has shown its bankruptcy in the pathetic forms of frantic, dawn-to-dusk errand-running P.T.A. mothers and ulcer-ridden financier uncles. The search has brought some of us to Harvard and is beginning to turn many of us away from it. It has fostered acidheads, Weathermen, Krishna- consciousness chanters, junkies...
...Southie guys, they seem to sense it, too. The fans were noisy at first, while Southie was still in the hockey game, then they were dawn quiet. But now, now that the game seems pretty much decided, it becomes time to build a little ill will. Out from under this sealley cap on the South Boston side comes this basic street-corner voice, yelled out during a break in the action when everything is relatively quiet...