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...border guards on the Communist side of the Berlin Wall could hardly believe their eyes. There, across the barrier in West Berlin, stood a lissome girl methodically taking off her clothes. Military caution was forgotten as the Grepos stared in undisguised glee. Too late did they hear a scuffling noise at an unprotected spot along the Wall 200 yds. away and notice a dim figure dashing from its shadow. One more East German had escaped to the West, and last week a Red officer denounced the stripteaser's distracting "provocation" in the columns of the military weekly Volksarmee...
...search for new thrills as the traditional, exhibitionistic rebellion of youngsters against adult authority. Parents who are quite agreeable to students' drinking almost always boggle at drugs. "There is not much that students can do that is defiant," says a Boston psychiatrist. "They think with some degree of glee about what their parents would think if they knew they were smoking marijuana." These students also are "looking for changes in personality," and "they lack communication and feel isolated-when they smoke there is a certain togetherness...
...solution, when it came, so delighted Yamasaki that he confesses to having jumped up and down with glee: a giant, six-story portico, which would marry the building, mall and park. To slenderize his trumpet-topped columns as much as possible, he manufactured them in one piece on the site and derricked them into place. The building repeats their rhythm around the facade in the manner of a Greek temple...
Varsity Football; Glee Club; Champion, Intramural Lightheavyweight Boxing; Adams House Football Coach and Athletic Secretary; Junior Usher; Association of African and Afro-American Students; Intramural Basketball and Track...
Fearful Contradictions. Like Moses from the mountain, Swift came raging out of the peat bogs to cry doom and damnation on the idolatrous race of men. He is God's angry man, a prophet of the wrath to come who screams with infernal glee as he opens the vials of vituperation on the heads of humankind. His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust. His wit is an indentured imp that leaps to any bidding-it can tickle the funny bone, attack with acid, fry living flesh on a deadpan, reach down the throat of a corpse and come...