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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name, but none of the critics have come on it yet," Henry proves to be a lonely, lecherous, whimsical, unstable academic hipster in the process of growing old, with an extraordinary talent for becoming the people and things he likes. His friend is an odd presence at his elbow who cautions, encourages and describes him in minstrel-show dialect-a cranky Still Small Voice in blackface who is a part of, and yet apart from, Henry Pussycat/House...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: John Berryman - 1 | 4/12/1966 | See Source »

...without a cork. As a freshman, he had been an eager overachiever. Now he was cutting his favorite class because it was just too far to walk. The only thing he really hungered for was a sense of cool. Like his buddy, Chum Breed, a shadowy man who wore elbow patches on brand-new jackets, and pooh-poohed nearly everything. You name it, and old Chum Breed had done it-from sniffing airplane glue at 14 to surfing at La Jolla. Breed even smelled different somehow. Like a faint whiff of short circuits, Lionel trains, old electric fans. In short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hell on Campus | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

...control, or of economic or social reform, is to talk of ephemeras. Stanford's Political Scientist Robert North sees Eastern Europe dressed in motley and "faced with unraveling nationalism. Everyone is trying on new clothes now, some too big, some too small, and some coming out at the elbow." Poland, which permits great personal freedom of expression and in the arts, is currently undergoing a tight fit with religion: Catholic bishops who want to celebrate the 1,000th year of Polish Catholicism in Czestochowa this May are clashing head-on with party nationalists, who want to save the thunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: The Third Communism | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

Harvard rebuilt the margin in two quick motions following a Tiger penalty at 15:35 of the middle frame. Jack Garrity directed the faceoff back to Bob Fredo and Fredo's slap shot whistled by Flanders' left elbow into the cage...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Hockey Team Blasts Princeton; Newton Tends Net in 4-1 Victory | 3/3/1966 | See Source »

Dartmouth should not be discounted, though. The Pea Green defeated the strong Boston College five that trounced the Crimson freshmen 115-90. Also Jim Bailey, one of Harvard's best rebounders and shooters, is out with a dislocated elbow...

Author: By Alfred R. Brenholts, | Title: Strong Yardling Quintet Should Crush Dartmouth | 3/1/1966 | See Source »

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