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...After playing hopscotch, Elsa and I liked to pick Japanese beetles off the rosebuds in the yard. They crawled on our fingers like a symbol of our half-formed feelings...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Poetry and Experience | 11/10/1959 | See Source »

...your party. You'll play another round of literary hopscotch--"I read Jude the Obscure last summer." "Oh, did you? I just finished Tom Jones, it's the first picaresque novel." And then you'll talk, in small attentive groups, of value judgments and semantic differences; or you'll remind each other that you have no identities yet, and speculate about Our Generation. Pull off each garment covering your souls, but don't worry, you can't escape the cliche. It's Saturday night, gentlemen, and I'm staying home to study...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Stab the Paper Dragon | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Winner of the tournament will be sent to Squaw Valley to try out for the hopscotch Olympics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Hopscotch Finals Today; Joq Favored | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

Finals of the annual Radcliffe hopscotch tournament will be played this afternoon in the basement of Comstock Hall. Finalists are Sadie Longstryde '60 and Harriet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Hopscotch Finals Today; Joq Favored | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

...movie was made on vacation as well as location, and this shows, much to the film's advantage. The plot is a crazy hopscotch around the Mediterranean, with side-jumps into subplots that pull up short in dead ends. The picture begins with a DeSica-like village square scene--a cacaphonous little brass band and a crowd through which are led four caricature desperadoes in handcuffs. They are Bogie's conspirators in an African uranium swindle. The movie flashes back to explain the scene. The explanation is the movie proper. It involves the characters in a voyage on a terrifically...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Beat the Devil | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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