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Along with its boycott, most Faculty members and administrators would much rather see the CRR die as a student issue. The Committee is often viewed as merely a thorn in the administration's side that with time and a local form of "benign neglect" will fade. There is also very little sentiment among Faculty members to change the CRR, and even less to spend time at Faculty meetings discussing...
Imitating an auctioneer and his bidders, the piano and percussion trade back and forth, until they fade out underneath David Lindley's hummingbird slide guitar...
...watch time, Buckley read Moby Dick. But no whales were sighted, just an unidentified submarine. Buckley also tells of anchoring in an isolated cove in the British Virgin Islands, only to be unexpectedly joined minutes later by another boat bearing Dr. Benjamin Spock. In warm neutral waters, ideological differences fade to reveal indelible tax brackets...
...choice will probably not be Robert Dole, though he insists, "I don't intend to fade away." The defeated vice-presidential candidate will go back to the Senate, where his term expires in 1980. Having presented a bad-mouth image and fared poorly in the polls during the campaign, he may well receive blame for the party's defeat and stands little chance of being nominated again for the G.O.P. ticket...
...nonfiction books, is adept at the mechanics of the novel. His dialogue sounds spoken, the scenes pass by smoothly and at just the right clip. Occasionally the prose is too lavish: "The sofas and chairs lie in cool pools of watery shadow like velvet leviathans anesthetized." But such empurplings fade as the book proceeds on its quiet but genuinely moving path. In the end, The End of the Party seems a well-tended, well-annotated photo album, an example of loving nostalgia tempered by wisdom...