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There, H. Reed Ellis '65, chairman of the HCUA, will meet with the two factions which opposed the HCUA division defeated in last Thursday's referendum and will attempt to hammer out a compromise constitution...
...kits were to contain five or six kinds of cookies, including brownies, oatmeal cookies, and special "brainpower" cookies, crackers, peanut butter, raisins, fruit, a panic button, and for 50 cents extra, a special "Knowledge Hammer," designed by an Italian scientist, for wedging facts into the brain. Similar kits have reportedly been sold in 22 colleges across the country...
VIOLENT contrasts racked his life and art. His poems could be golden and struck by grace, split by the metaphysical hammer of God; but his most golden lines were yoked to an ironic, satanic vision of the meanness of a scrap-iron age. He captured, and still captures, the minds of the young; but he personified himself as "an old man in a dry month," and his characteristic poetic voice was that of a man who seemed at least 50 the day he was born...
Plucking the silk strings claw-hammer fashion with his right hand, Eto drew an incisive, harplike sound from the koto. As if feeling a pulse, his left hand roamed the length of the instrument, deftly depressing the vibrating strings in order to vary tones and lend the tinge of melancholy that is the unique trait of the koto. The opening melody, sketched against a background of moaning strings and sudden percussive bursts, followed the austere style of the ancient gagaku court music of Japan, then shifted in the second movement to a distinctly Western hymnal theme. In the final movement...
...occasion, sloblike old Mike Hammer has been retired in favor of one Tiger Mann. The difference is imperceptible except that Tiger is equipped with an ideological fervor so single-mindless that even the Birch Society might suspect he is some kind of nut. It seems that, thanks to "the college boys in striped pants and the eggheads in Washington, our government has become a joke all the way down into Mau-Mau territory"; the West is sure to "lose everything"-unless Tiger and his extragovernmental CIA can stanch a critical security leak at the U.N. The "commy bastards," it turns...