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Jacob Meyer served two hectic terms with genuine distinction. There was little criticism directed at him. Most everybody was afraid to express criticism for fear of being accused of antiSemitism. Meyer's Administration broke the crust of old traditions and old prejudices. He left office on such a churning tide of democratic sentiment that he was able, miraculously, to pick his successor and have him elected against incredible odds: the first Negro President...
...then the book carries echoes of Lucky Jim's brattish humor, and Author Amis remains a shrewd, accurate observer of what sociologists call courtship patterns. He also has a message of sorts. After a particularly hectic session, Patrick tells Jenny bitterly that there are two kinds of men these days, the sort who despoil maidens as often as possible and the sort who have no desire to do so. The kind who wanted to but waited, he says, died...
Thus despite its dissona "row," the Fantasy is still conservative in that Coplan retained the traditional mo rhythmic and melodic con He once said that modern "shares with older music pression of basic human ent even though at times it may more painful, more hectic, mocastic. Whatever else it it is the voice of our own in that it needs no apology...
...adequately on $12 to $13 a day. It suggests that tourists eat as Americans do-at drugstores, Howard Johnson's ("excellent soup of mussels,'' i.e., clam chowder), Chock Full O' Nuts ("that super-American institution''), and a hectic Broadway cafeteria named Hector's. The Budget-Baedeker adds that tourists need not worry, no matter how unprepossessing the restaurant, since "food is handled everywhere under conditions of strictest hygiene...
...varsity's attack, on the other hand, forced Bulldog goalie Ted Forstmann to come up with 45 saves, many of them on shots made at point-blank range. Forstmann withstood perfectly a rather hectic minute and a half when overlapping penalties in the second period left his team two men short, but undid all his good work a few moments later with a leg-slide that kicked in a Crimson shot which otherwise would probably have missed the cage...