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...firm grip of a plaster mask. I didn't realize how firm a grip it was until I attempted to remove it. (We had used petroleum jelly without the benefit of Saran.) I was hung up by my hair and my eyelashes. My eyebrows pulled out without any fuss, but I couldn't bear to part with my eyelids. So, holding my "face" in one hand, I began to demolish the project with a hammer in the other. Pieces near my eyes broke off, and Bette sliced away blindly with a pair of scissors, shearing off my eyelashes...
...reputation has made him a poet's poet, "that forlorn phrase," in William Meredith's words. And his role as an innovator relates directly to his role as a teacher and scholar. For better or for worse, Berryman is an academic--that once-unpleasant label that generated such a fuss in the late fifties. Most of his life has been spent in colleges and universities. Born in Oklahoma, in 1914 he was educated at Columbia, Clare College and Cambridge; since then he has taught "just about everywhere but the South," including Grinnell, Wayne (Detroit), Princeton, Minnesota--where...
Donor Bobst, a onetime drug clerk who had only one year of college but rose to be board chairman of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., finds the fuss over his gift "a little embarrassing." A lifetime library lover, he gave the money, he says, because of "my great faith in self-acquired education by reading." N.Y.U.'s Hester lustily applauds such faith in reading-and in the future of the urban university...
...those students are actually liberated, why the fuss, the cheap publicity, the organizations, the gimmicky buttons? This can only encourage the frustrated unenlightened to strike back with more deadly and repulsive conventional morality. Nietzsche warns: "Beware when you fight a monster that you do not become a monster yourself." Now that you at Berkeley have got over being ashamed of your bodies, take a look at your minds...
Both Liberals and Tories were relieved. The Munsinger case had simply become too hot to handle. The Tories' fire-breathing chieftain John Diefenbaker sounded strangely subdued in Parliament when he damned Liberal Justice Minister Lucien Cardin, who started the fuss in the first place, for "smear, scuttlebutt, slander and smut." Diefenbaker did not even try for a vote of confidence. His style was undoubtedly cramped by the fact that his former Transport Minister, George Hees, a gregarious Torontonian who at first indignantly disclaimed any acquaintance with the blonde, now conceded that he might have lunched with her at Ottawa...