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Yesterday, Jacobs could hardly conceal his delight at the furor his price cuts have caused. "We should be given a medal for giving the students a break," he said, "If someone wants to be a damn fool and rent a store with high overhead and all kinds of administrative costs, let him try. We're not here for philanthropy. We can make money at 3-2-1. We can make money at 21/2 cents a copy...
...never write notes to newspapers. Hate young people, by and large. But . . . January 18th edition of the CRIMSON was just fine. More important. Carol Sternhell's funny-sad-wry "nostalgia" piece was a delight. To top it all off. the caption writer on the sports page deserves some kind of double-intended award...
...were not Italian but French-Poussin and Claude in the 17th century, Corot in the early 19th. But other French painters, not chiefly known as landscapists, also set down their impressions of that tawny city in which history lay preserved as in amber. None worked with a more impassioned delight than the master whose name was to become synonymous with classicism itself, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. His love affair with the city is celebrated by "Ingres in Rome," a collection of 150 drawings in Rome (135 from the Musee Ingres in his native town of Montauban and never seen...
...feed by the manner in which they dismiss milk ("The secretion of the mammary glands of cows, goats and sheep") and eggs ("the reproductive media of birds"). The one thing Living the Good Life most lacks is what Walden has in such abundance-a sense of real delight in the natural world. Man does not live by bread labor alone, nor did the Nearings, but you would not know it from their book...
...waiting on the side-lines, should anyone get hurt. There are bandages for sprains, and oxygen for the man whose wind has been knocked out of him. All this goes to bring about an age-old masculine dream; a tremendous war with only incidental suffering and sorrow. We can delight in the beauty of naked aggression without worrying about the consequences...