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...Amenities: middling. Standard lounges. Snack bars and coffee shops, two open 24 hr. Excellent Omelette Parlor (omelettes from $2.25). Best restaurant: International Room, attractive, expensive. Eight bars, largest open 7:15 a.m. to 1 a.m. Run-of-the-mill shopping, except for well-stocked bookstore, sourdough-bread booths and flower store that ships California-grown daisies anywhere. Beauty salon (wash and cut, $12), two barbershops with showers ($2.25), saunas ($3.50), clothes pressing ($2 a suit). Animal shelter. Clinic with seven doctors open 24 hr., two fully equipped mini-ambulances, 250-bed hospital, morgue and pressroom ready for use in disaster...
...Evening of One-Act Plays at the Loeb Experimental Theater combines some of Harvard's best actors and three rarely-shown plays by modern playwrights: "The Proposal," by Chekhov, "The Man with the Flower in His Mouth," by Pirandello, and "Please Don't Walk Around in the Nude," by Feydeau. Should be good. Thurs.-Sat. this week, Wed.-Sat. next. Curtain at 7:30 p.m., tickets free at the Loeb box office anytime...
...with no armed guards and no violent convicts. The two camps have acres of grassy lawns. Mitchell's borders a golf course and a river in which convicts can fish. Haldeman's sits at the edge of a blossom-filled valley devoted to the commercial production of flower seeds. Both prisons have outdoor playing fields and recreational periods that stretch from the end of the workday in midafternoon until prisoners choose to go to bed. Haldeman is living in a cubicle in a 30-man dormitory. Mitchell has one cellmate and, because he is over 40, is sure...
...much the errant hand of Puck (Lewis Gordon) who sprinkles the distilled magic flower potion onto the eyelids of the dreamers at the wrong time as it is the master-hand of the Bard. It is he who wakens the star-vexed lovers and sets them in pursuit of those who will scornfully spurn them. It is he who inspires the Queen of the Fairies, Titania (Maggie Smith), to dote in adoration on Bottom (Alan Scarfe) after the head of an ass has been grafted...
...viewpoint belittles the cumulative impact of these Sixties trademarks. They exist now only in our memories, yet, at that time, all had a particular social purpose; none were merely inventions of an aberrant Madison Avenue mind. In his novel Home Free, Dan Wakefield reduces the symbols of the flower child era to cliches and stereotypes, and in so doing, he joins the ranks of those who wrongly dismiss the outgrowths of that period as psychedelic nonsense...