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...slightly apart from these stories, a hilarious account of a writer's development, which ranks as a small comic masterpiece: "First try to be something, anything else... Fail miserably. It is best if you fail at an early age--say, fourteen. Early, critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire." But in the middle of all the wisecracking remain passages that ring out with such truth that they communicate directly to the reader the pleasure of literary creation, "those brief, fragile, untested moments of exhilaration when you know...
...immediately called the Boston Computer Exchange and put his equipment up for sale. "I wanted to get rid of it before everybody else read the newspapers," says Strauss, a hotel night auditor from Waltham, Mass. But he got no takers, even at 40% off the $1,399 list price. Fifteen months after its arrival on the market, the PCjr had joined the ranks of the computer "orphans." Because it was forsaken by its maker, its owner was likely to face ever dwindling supplies of parts, programs and peripheral devices...
Kossan said most residents of Harvard-affiliated housing are graduate students. Fifteen percent of all graduate students and 2 percent of junior faculty reside in the housing...
...FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Robin Morgan observed the beginnings of a feminist movement in America. In Sisterhood is Powerful she wrote of an incipient movement that exists where three or four friends or neighbors decide to meet regularly over coffee and decide to talk about their personal lives. It also exists in the cells of women's jails, on the welfare lines, in the supermarket, the factory, the convent, the farm, the maternity ward, the street corner, the old ladies home, the kitchen, the steno pool...
Ninety two year old Warmoth I. Gibbs '17 last night told a group of Black undergraduates clustered around him that times had changed since he came to Harvard from Baldwin Louisiana at age fifteen...