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...yourself dressed in Renaissance robes, poring over an illuminated manuscript in an Erasmus-like tower. You lean over and look out the window at the little groups of women walking to market and children playing tag, a couple of lovers smiling at one another in the grass, and a frown comes over your face, you shake your head, and, with a slight disdainful grunt, you return to pore over your work...Then, as you are trying to concentrate, you are pushed by someone muttering to himself, "Where the hell are the psychology books?" and you are back in Cambridge...
...elegant prefabricated models can be bought for as little as $300 at sporting-goods stores, mounted on runners and towed onto the ice by snowmobile, car or truck (which can supply electricity for lights and appliances). The snowmobiles are also used for getting round the ice towns, but purists frown on them, complaining that their racket scares the fish away. Another factor in the growth of ice-fishing has been the development of thermal-layer underwear, which enables the shanty anglers to go calling on their neighbors in comfort. Many anglers bring along outhouses, furnished with "thunder mugs"-pots with...
...kindly to a new dancer and diffident with a doorman. Yet the presence of this "towering man with a frown," as one company member puts it, can be unpredictably explosive. He does not suffer fools gladly, which explains why there is a small legion known as "Kirstein widows"-people he no longer talks to. Among them: New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose early artistic interests he nurtured but with whom he later had differences...
...WEEKS you'll be coming to Harvard? Excited? All your dreams are about to come true. Your high school buddies are jealous, and you feel a little funny about that, but Jesus are you proud of it. And that cool pride--the pride you'll come to frown upon as uncool, at least with your peers--may make you just a bit more vulnerable than you'd like to think...
...then Farmer Brown will frown on the old briar patch and call it wasteland and threaten to clear away all the bushes and trees," wrote Author Thornton Burgess in 1947, in "The Old Briar Patch." But in the end Farmer Brown always decided to save the patch - and so last week did the town of Sandwich, Mass. (pop. 5,000). By unanimous vote, the 800 citizens decided to spend $200,000 to buy up 57 acres of meadows, ponds and forest, including the five acres of bull and cat briars that har bored such Burgess creatures as Reddy Fox, Bobby...