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...espoused by Philip Taubman. In the backwoods are the piercing cacophony of songbirds, the harassment by vicious chipmunks and other wild beasts, the choking fumes of wildflowers. Give me the trailer camp with the solidity of concrete beneath my feet, the rich aroma of half-burned gasoline, the reassuring hum of the flush toilet, the wall-to-wall people. Ah, the great outdoors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 23, 1973 | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

John Finley's course, Hum 3, "The Rise of the Greek Classic," is already well-established as one of the most popular courses at Harvard, though it has only been offered four times. However, John Finley, its creator, has been at Harvard considerably longer than that...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: This Was Your Life? | 5/17/1973 | See Source »

...Well, let me see," there was an annoying hum on the line for almost 20 seconds while Coffey calculated his answer. "Huh, I guess I'm the only one," he boasted...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Dake It or Leave It | 5/9/1973 | See Source »

...grinned to herself. The world is a broken Ripple bottle. Yes, yes, a ripped apart Ripple bottle. Some still glistening fragment attracted her eye and absorbed her. Timeless. Rhythm of timelessness; timeless ocean waves. Her endless drift of unconcerned thinking. A sailing without a goal, or known beginning. A hum started out of her sea-faring self; a song of bright, free ships...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

...machine falter. The county joined LBJ's landslide victory over Barry Goldwater. Nether Providence, a township just south of Media, did not join the festivities. Goldwater won big there, as did Nixon in 1960, 1968, and 1972. The machine in Nether Providence clicked, whirred, and continued to hum, smoothly functioning as it is today...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: The Machine: Rolling Jobs Into Votes | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

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