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...Irving Harrison to live anywhere he likes if he and his family are happier there. But does he really think that Spain is a good example of a country that shows compassion toward its poor and lack of repression toward its liberals...
...Gardner, children are not helpless victims. Instead of wasting time "blaming people for things that happened in the past, things that cannot be changed," they can "start doing the things that will make the future happier." They can, for example, "make it their business to find friends so that they'll be less lonely." But they must observe W.C. Fields' rule: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again: if after that, you still don't succeed, forget it. One thing to give up on rather quickly, the author suggests, is trying...
...theater of the young. Her exuberances, her frenzies, her "highs" set off chain explosions in the audiences. The quart bottle of Southern Comfort that she held aloft onstage was at once a symbol of her load and a way of lightening it. As she emptied the bottle, she grew happier, more radiant, and more freaked out. The spread of the feet grew wider, the stomp more frantic. The flopping mop of hair did its best, but could not completely hide the tightening grimace of the face. As the mouth opened wide, the macadam voice, scarred by booze and cigarettes, grew...
...Sept. 14] is a bitter old man, he will regret 1970, when he did his best to turn all of us who are young at heart into bitter old women with his midis. When women's knees were free, their spirit was free. They became younger, more energetic, happier. The midi makes them old, dowdy and grumpy...
Life is likely to be a bit happier for the Yardlings on Friday since Brown has lost to Yale, 15-50. And losing to Yale in cross country is like losing to Harvard in basketball...