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...play the game anyway: Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were suddenly to fall silent? Easy: No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea. What if John Updike were to stop writing? A shame, but not a duster for American culture. Walker Percy? Joyce Carol Gates? Donald Barthelme? No. Philip Roth? Joseph Heller? William Styron? Truman Capote? John Gardner? John Irving? Norman Mailer? Stop It gets to be a pogrom. The mind flips through its card catalogue. Very few disastrous silences loom...
...popular. Though he became editor of the Crimson, he could not make the freshman football team, and he was crushed at failing to get into Harvard's fanciest club, the Porcellian. Girls who encountered him at debutante dances considered him a lightweight and nicknamed him Feather Duster. His newly widowed mother bought a house in Boston to be near...
...colleagues had played a frustrating game of hide-and-seek with the sun, made one false start and even sought more favorable conditions by packing up and shifting their base to England before returning to France. When Ptacek, who honed his flying skills as a crop duster, finally got under way last week and started climbing to his cruising altitude of 11,000 ft., he radioed that he was being buffeted by turbulence from a passing passenger aircraft. Then a helicopter and a small plane, both apparently filled with photographers, began jostling him as well. He warned he would have...
...time you stumble back--eight days, 70 verses of "American Pie," 642 beers and one homecoming stop at Buzzy's later--every cell of your being will be satiated with sun, sand, alcohol and the smell of your fellow sun lovers crammed into that Duster for all those hours. But it will have been worth it--the tan alone would be enough; the frisbee games, margaritas and girl you met in Daytona are extra cheese in the taco...
...were taken Sunday night to the off-campus home of one of the players where they were given alcohol until they became sick. Then the older players stripped the freshmen, shaved them from the waist down and drove them back to their dormitories in the hatchback of a Plymouth Duster, The Daily reported...