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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of poems and stories, and two book reviews, but Mirsky's story is easily the most interesting piece. Harvard student Twirckoff (no first name) is Jewish, a senior in Eliot House; he wears Brooks Brothers clothing, professes agnosticism, and scorns his bourgeois antecedents (he won't even eat his mother's noodle pudding). In all these matters Twirckoff reminded me of Richard Amsterdam, the socially ambitious protagonist of Remember Me to God, the best-selling Harvard novel of a few years ago. But the basic difference between Richard Amsterdam and Mirsky's Twirckoff is more important than their surface...
...College is also considering a plan to provide meal tickets for students who live off-campus but would occasionally like to eat lunch or breakfast in the Quad dorms...
...conserve fuel. SAC's planners calculate that he is within reach of his target for 21 hours-known as "effectiveness time." In the remaining three hours, he is low on fuel and making a scheduled mid-air refueling rendezvous. During the long patrol, crewmen warm their food and eat. thumb through books and magazines, rotate taking catnaps on rubber mattresses and in sleeping bags...
...replacement. When none appeared, he took a slow look around his own city room, finally tapped energetic Maxine, mother of two, who had worked for Roberts since 1956 and knew all of her old boss's news sources. "I was petrified." says Maxine. "I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. After all, Bill Roberts had been writing his column for twelve years. Who was I to take him on?" Roberts concurred, warned Maxine: "Nobody's ever been able to buck me. You'll be out of a job in six months...
...little disorganized organizing went on, applications were solicited, and David Riesman submitted a proposal that was to haunt discussions of the Freshman year: fifty members of the seminar group he was organizing would live in a single dorm (what he would do with his Cliffies never became clear) and eat their meals together, taking a core of courses together. The Advanced Standing Committee was decidedly not interested...