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...reason for letting the remaining courts at Soldiers Field become so dilapidated involves nebulous plans for future construction on the site. If that is the case, we can probably kiss tennis good-bye as a participatory sport at Harvard. People will have to play on that well-maintained grass for which the University is so wellknown...
...terminated his romance with himself aboard a British army bike, which he had named George VII. During the '50s and '60s, Hell's Angels on their Harley-Davidsons turned in convincing performances as Visigoths at the gates of suburbia. Easy Rider could not keep off the grass, and Evel Knievel, that star spangled Icarus of the carnival circuit, gives young minibike owners potentially lethal delusions of grandeur. But now, during the lull in the great gas panic of '74, comes a 46-year-old Minnesotan and writer of computer manuals, who makes the motorcycle not only...
...telephone addict, and his phone directory is a cassette on which he narrates to himself all the numbers that he regularly dials. If he could acquire sight, he is regularly asked, what would he want to see? And he regularly replies: The world, the earth, the birds, the grass and the people he loves. "But there are a lot of things I wouldn't want to see. Destruction, corruption and war. Hate and sin. But you can already feel all those things anyway. It may sound contradictory, but if I did see such ugly things, they would make...
Awaiting the Messiah. Steffens belonged to what Kaplan calls "American grass-roots radicalism" which is marked by hunger for drastic solutions and "an inclination to spend their time and spirit cussing out the government and the bank while awaiting the arrival of the messiah." Steffens was inflamed by the redemptive possibilities of the Russian Revolution. He stumped for Bolshevism as the hope of Europe and in 1919 was even a member of William C. Bullitt's secret mission to Moscow to learn on what terms the Reds would negotiate with the Paris Peace Commission. Steffens' famous pronouncement...
Twenty-one graudate and undergraduate students, who are studying Chinese and who are also experienced canoers, are planning the trip as a "grass roots" effort to "promote genuine brotherhood and cooperation" between Chinese and American young people, the trip proposal--which was delivered to the Chinese government last week--says...