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Innocuous talk-show badinage, perhaps, but on that frail foundation Doc has built a lucrative second career. Capitalizing on his Tonight image, he has branched out on his own, both as a guest soloist with symphony orchestras and star of the campus and nightclub circuit. He has his own eleven-piece back-up band called the Now Generation Brass and a company of ten singers and dancers called Today's Children. In 1971, with state fairs, appearances in special events like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and entertainment for football festivities like those at last week...
There is indeed something solemnly institutional about Eiseley, the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and the History of Science and Curator of Early Man at the University of Pennsylvania. Perhaps only someone with such an array of titles would drift into such rhetoric as "the frail confines of the human heart," and then, on the same page, "the windswept uplands of the human mind...
...lull followed as the conference waited for the revised resolution on George Jackson. Suddenly a frail woman rushed the mike and branded the discussion of the Jackson statement "tasteless and obscene." "A man has been killed," she screamed. "Do we think that our sentiments are so goddamned important?" Staggering in shock, the clergy and laymen retreated into sorrowful prayer. One of the few blacks in the room--a woman--began softly: "We Shall Overcome...
...from the stiffness of pride by an ironist's self-knowledge. The author manages to make him credible and even more or less persuades the reader to accept such verbal acupuncture as this: "Old it is true. But mark you, sir, I shall never be so old or frail that I could not spit the likes of you on the point of a rapier like a poor sparrow. I would cut you clean from your high beard to your lower one, where all your brains dangle...
Maurice is a plodder and a sticker who can imagine no fate beyond the inevitable family ascension to Hill and Hall Stock Brokers. He is also, without for the longest time realizing it, a homosexual. At Cambridge he half-consciously involves himself with Clive Durham, a frail intellectual taken to gathering up prizes in the classics. Early on, Durham mistakes Maurice's receptiveness and blurts out, "I love...