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...student who particularly sought out our company was a militant who told us he wanted to see Raleigh burn. "I feel hate," he told us, "I could kill a white man." A penetrating look, then a broad grin: "Not you, man!" He let us know he wasn't just being friendly to please us. His decision to be friendly (and it was his decision, not ours) was an act of generosity...
...other groups, Joe's ideas are as outspoken as his political views. "The Beach Boys," he said, "are like a bunch of fraternity brothers who took LSD and have really gone beserk. Some of their effects are nice, but their lyrics..."--and a grin spread over his face...
...self-made men. Son of a Scots blacksmith and an Irish lass, he peddled papers, passed up Dartmouth in favor of reporting local news, and later bought the paper. Politics came naturally in that era, and Joe Martin was a natural. Stubby and combative, as quick with an infectious grin as with a roundhouse right, little Joe's big break came in 1925, when he entered the U.S. House of Representatives after the man who had beaten him in the primary died before the general election...
Kaysen hopes to do some more analysis of his own after he has settled in at the Institute, but so far his time has been taken up with administrative duties, he says with a wry grin. In spite of his preoccupation with the Institute, Kaysen still finds time to attend meetings of the Advisory Committee for Economic Development, which advises the Agency for International Development, and for such public services as delivering the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures at the Law School here last week. "Cambridge still feels like home," Kaysen remarked last week during his two-day stay...
...family, grumping at the BBC, and lecturing his little friend on some of the ways to tell a Jew ("They smell bad"). In his first movie role, young Alain Cohen survives country living and the reality of imbecile anti-Semitism with the help of two sharp eyes, an impish grin, and a pair of the most perkily prominent ears in France...