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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SWELL JUST SWELL. Seven thousand dollars a year, and what do you get? Cold cereal in the morning (and don't forget the additives) served in plastic bowls, three bean salad, and, beginning last year, Feedback. And what, you rightfully ask, is Feedback? It would. I suppose, be too facile to simply answer, "Just what the name implies." It seems that the Food Services were recently bequeathed several million reams of top-quality 100 per cent rag content paper and have hired both a dead codfish and retired songstress Hildegard Knish (pronounced K'nish) to write their publicity releases. (Just...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Just a Bowl of Nitrites | 9/30/1977 | See Source »

...down to eat toast, life is toast. And when you take out the garbage, life is garbage! You can't leave the garbage halfway down the stairs, Helen. It belongs in the can in the yard. Covered.' 'I forgot it.' 'How can you forget it when it's already in your hand?' 'Perhaps, dear, because it's garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of a Jewish Centaur | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

Crosby is not so readily dismissed. There is, for example, the question of his religiosity. Forget for the moment the outlandish trappings of his faith, forget his ambition to emulate Icarus by flying into the Sun, forget such mysticism, and one is faced with a man of passionate energy and conviction, but no recognized religion into which to channel his embarassing welter of emotions. Ezra Pound called Crosby's life a "religious manifestation" and his death "a vote of confidence in the cosmos." It may be easy to decry the self-indulgent sensualism in which Crosby ultimately gloried...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Sherry and Schopenhauer | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

That theory probably doesn't hold water, Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, said this week. Once a course is over, students tend to forget the material: in addition, they often have four new courses taking up their energy, and they have a hard time concentrating on things they learned six months before...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Fighting An Excuse Epidemic | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

...play in which Davenport was injured. The latter hesitated at the line of scrimmage, however, and while he still made it to the end zone, the momentary pause cost him the rest of the season. Tim Davenport waited patiently for two years, played twice, and will play no more. Forget the return of Jim Curry, forget the fortune of Davenport's successor. For the time being, just remember Tim Davenport. That's all there...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Timmy, We Hardly Knew Ye | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

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