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Paul Erickson, the Quincy House librarian, who is doing doctoral research on Herman Melville and American literature, does not qualify his enthusiasm for the collection. "We have to do our bit to keep up the great traditions of Western literature," he says. "I learned to read from comic books and I can see that the more distinguished students at Quincy House did too. It shows; they're got the right"--he searches for the word--"pizazz...
...conventional longterm, fixed-rate mortgage as old-fashioned as Willy Loman's Studebaker. Virtually all banks in California stopped making such loans last fall. Hundreds of thousands of would-be buyers now simply cannot afford the big down payment or steep monthly charges involved in those loans. Herman J. Smith, president of the National Association of Home Builders, says that only about 4% of first-time home buyers can qualify for a 15% mortgage on a median-priced house. Therefore, people are turning to so-called creative home financing...
Whatever the motions of free will and necessity, Herman Melville wrote, "chance has the last featuring blow at events." Luck may be simply another name for the odd, unexpected notes in the huge symphony of things, of circumstance and coincidence, chemistry and character, diet and disease, weather and timing, the vastly subtle totality of being. But whatever the agnostics say, luck is not completely blind, or completely wild either. Within limits, it can be domesticated-although it will always be part wolf and may unexpectedly turn mad and eat the children one afternoon...
...survey distributed to GSAS students at registration in January, 1980 provided the impetus for the Lehman Hall plan, Herman Marshall, secretary of the GSC, said yesterday. The survey "came back with a pretty strong response" in favor of some sort of graduate center, he said...
...cold and indignant in his summation, insisting that jealousy over Tarnower's affair with his lab assistant, Lynne Tryforos, 38, was the motivating factor for murder. Argued Bolen: "There was dual intent, to take her own life, but also an intent to do something else . . . to punish Herman Tarnower . . . to kill him and keep him from Lynne Tryforos." Bolen ridiculed the notion that Harris fired her .32-cal. revolver by accident. He urged the jury to examine the gun while deliberating. Said he: "Try pulling the trigger. It has 14 pounds of pull. Just see how difficult it would...