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...Genteel Dropout. Except for scholars, libraries and a few former English majors now adrift in commerce, these disclosures alone do not justify the coffee-table price fixed on the book by its publishers. Pound was a good editor, as well as the best and most generous teacher and preacher of modern poetic practice ever. Eliot had already started cutting radically, and Pound cut to the bone, giving The Waste Land pace and density. But except for a score of lines, part of a much longer description of a sea voyage that Pound cut from the "Death by Water" section...
...injury and waiver clauses but handle trades, drafts, taxes, bills, wills, movies, TV, endorsements, investments, public appearances and even manners. When the Boston Bruins' Derek Sanderson won the National Hockey League's Rookie of the Year honors in 1968, Woolf schooled the then 21year-old high-school dropout in the social graces, got him a TV talk show, won him a salary increase from $14,000 to $50,000 and had him dash off an as-told-to autobiography, I've Got To Be Me. "An athlete finds glory only for a few years," says Woolf...
...wistful, slightly sentimental humor of William Saroyan and the abrasive machine-gun ribaldry of Lenny Bruce. Add to that a mental image of Holden Caulfield as a 30-year-old dropout, and you have the basic tone and temper of Terrence McNally's Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone...
...every voluntary dropout comes back, of course. Roger Klotz, 21, who left Allegheny College after his sophomore year, became disenchanted on a cross-country hitchhike, decided that "the average guy can get his liberal arts education by reading in his spare time while he's working." He was hired by a hardware chain (after agreeing to stay with the firm for five years). Other dropouts drop in to part-time jobs and the communal-living arrangements that are now a permanent outgrowth of the counterculture...
Clearly, leaving college can turn into a purposeless drift through trivial jobs and futile distractions. The specter of a dropout's destroying himself on heroin haunts many a parent (though the prevalence of drugs on campus makes life in academe less reassuring than it used...