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...planned anything special for Quincy. "Right now I'm thinking only about adding a member to the Celtic Department," he says. After that he intends to get down to this new business--learning about undergraduates. "My wife and I have always tried to entertain students, though," he says. "We're interested in what students want to do with their lives...
...children (he has five) in a private school. As a result, he is Out with the In jazz crowd, who accuse him of "going commercial." Lewis could not care less. "Apparently they identify poverty with sincerity," he says. "Some jazz musicians say you don't have to entertain; just play it, baby. But to get them to come back, I say you've got to merchandise it-baby...
After Nobis, the deluge. Illinois Fullback Jim Grabowski, the No. 1 choice of the A.F.L.'s newborn Miami Dolphins, signed (for $250,000) with the N.F.L.'s Green Bay Packers-not even bothering to entertain a bid from New York Jets Owner David ("Sonny") Werblin, who persuaded the Dolphins to deed him the rights to Grabowski at the last minute. Then the A.F.L.'s San Diego Chargers lost their No. 1 draftee, mammoth (6 ft. 5 in., 255 Ibs.) Los Angeles State Tackle Don Davis, to the N.F.L.'s New York Giants. The Western Champion Chargers...
...alienated. But the Advocate's monotonous avant garde anomie turns away fellow-travelers as well as Philistines. The trick is to be artistic, and occasionally to snap out of it. Most of the pieces in the Advocate do not heighten or clarify what they talk about, nor do they entertain. They either grab the reader by the intellect and dare him to interpret them, or they flirt ambiguously with him. Too often the Advocate's authors "confound obscurity of expression with the expression of obscurity," as Poe put it. A good poem should sound good the first time around...
...businessman who wants to entertain can do best in Buenos Aires, where a night out for four (with dinner, theater and a nightclub windup with champagne) costs only $34. For the same kind of fun in Tokyo, where a geisha costs $27 per evening, a spender can run up a staggering $250 bill without really trying. New York does not run much less. The best place to rent a comfortable apartment is in The Hague, Lisbon. Montreal or Oslo, where such accommodations can be had for less than $120 per month. In Tokyo, however, a three-room furnished apartment rents...