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...Toshio, a successful but somewhat lonely novelist in his tifties, decides to visit one of the loves of his youth. Ueno Otoko. This visit awakens feelings of passion and remorse that had lain dormant through the 24 years since their separation; he had deserted the 16-year-old Otoko following her suicide attempt prompted by the death of their premature baby. During the visit, he meets Keiko, Otoko's young protege and lover, in whom he sees the full bloom of Otoko's lost beauty and passion. But aware of Otoko's past. Keiko sets out single mindedly to seduce...
What she means is that underneath the desperate fantasies of a sad childhood and a missed adolescence, an authentic star presence of as yet unpredictable dimensions was actually dormant. Sonny Bono was right when he sensed that quality in the confused little chick he took in a dozen years...
...Radcliffe students, aching to be read and produced. And a fair number of Hasty Pudding scripts--all of them original--are rejected every year. The Premiere Society has already received manuscripts to consider for future productions. All that has been needed is a little encouragement for original work--lying dormant all around Harvard--to begin to replace the pointless revivals of shows that long ago overstayed their welcome on Broadway but are forever being resurrected at Harvard Radcliffe anyway...
Rodriguez said the student ACSR, which was dormant last year, will be revitalized this spring. He said the group will seek official recognition as a student organization from the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, and then begin to do research on this year's proxy issues...
...apparent that external goings-on at Harvard have changed drastically. Five years ago, student activism was still alive and supposedly represented a release in which students could externalize their anxieties. Today, student activism lies dormant as the number of clubbies grows, along with the resurrection of Harvard's only fraternity house, which died in 1969. In a sense, the undergraduate psyche has been driven back to where it was in the early '60s--pent up and anxious. As the 1972-73 UHS annual report observed...