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When he started the Breakfast Club, he recalls, "I took over the deadest radio time just to fill it." Now the early morning hours have become the prime time of radio, and Don McNeill is cruising along on some $100,000 a year...
...Deadest and most pathetic of all cats was an interpreter in the Culture Ministry who sought out Capote as a fellow artist. "I have my own telephone," boasted the artist. "Among your writers, the powerful one is A. J. Cronin. But Sholikov is more powerful, yes?" The scene in which the Russian is afraid-and afraid to admit he is afraid-to accept a few paperback books from a brother artist is a merciless ly cut cameo of intellectual life in Russia...
...Deadest Dump." After nine days, the police let Lucky go. They were unable to pin anything on him, but last week they handed him a foglio di via obbligatorio-a document compelling him to report within four days to the police at Lercara Friddi, the humble Sicilian town where he began life, 52 years ago, as Salvatore Lucania, and which he once described as "the deadest dump in the world." The police hinted that Lucky might eventually be permitted on the mainland again, but that never again could he live in Rome...
...party, we try to go back to the 19th Century, or even to the 1920s, you can bury the Republican Party as the deadest pigeon in the country . . . What we ought to do is to stop bellyaching about the past . . . and start making it everlastingly clear to the country where we stand...
...make it wise for the Faculty to delay temporarily any definite change, but policy discussions should start as soon as possible to allow for expression of opinion from all the student and faculty groups who will want to heard. It is never too soon to revive one of the deadest elements of Harvard's not over-lively academic liberalism...