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...after Lewis's July 28th appearance on Steve Allen's Sunday night show. I remember watching that performance with the same startled excitement that seized me when I saw Elvis's debut on the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey "Stage Show" 18 months earlier. A sharp intake of breath, a gnarl of the stomach and an irresistibly bopping head could mean only one thing to a kid reaching puberty at the same time rock did: The revolution was here...
There aren't many of them. They're here but you don't see or hear from them very often. We like to think of them as the future freeloaders of America--those who selfishly gnarl at the hand that optimistically feeds them. John Yoo's editorial of April 12 is the cry of one of these embittered students...
...signs of what Germans call Waldsterben, or dying forests, are obvious. New leaves and needles, smaller than usual, turn yellow or brown and finally drop to the ground. In time, many evergreens, some of them 150 years old, simply stop bearing needles. Roots and trunks begin to warp, gnarl and shrink...
Harvard undergraduates accustomed to unraveling a gnarl of red tape at registration will find their sojourn in Memorial Hall considerably shorter today thanks to a revised policy by the registrar's office...
...Puritanism is an anti-passion so powerful as to disorder the reason it purports to support. Beneath their cool New England exteriors, Alonso hints, Emerson and Thoreau-and Bronson-were as gloriously crazy as his own Don Quixote. He knows how consciences can cramp under strain, how idealism can gnarl the mind. He is not joking when he compares the 19th century Utopian experiment at Brook Farm with a Massachusetts mental hospital of today...