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At Dartmouth College the spring equivalent of Winter Carnival. Green Key Weekend, was celebrated with customary abandon Fraternities gathered to match musical ability in an afternoon long melody contest known as the campus hums" and student drivers piloted chariots pulled by companions in a traditional "recreation" of the ancient Greek...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, WITH COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS | Title: Spring Spurs Student Parties Across U.S. | 5/18/1983 | See Source »

On the "Oh, What a Fellowship Hour," another minister preaches a religion engaged in life rather than in the electronic propagation of plastic virtue. The service is outdoors, in a Chicago park. In the background, a chain-link fence rises as though to shield the playground and the worshippers from...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: Our Lady of the Country Club | 5/7/1982 | See Source »

He stands, grinning lopsidedly, the whiff of mischief strong. Straightaway, he needles his too earnest competitor from Rhode Island College (who had, after all, just called Kidd an "obnoxious fool"). "Yes, I saw last night," Kidd says, "the hideous goings-on between my honorable opponent and the lady he mentioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: The Best and the Glibbest | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

Rabbit may be stuck in the midlife doldrums, but Rabbit Is Rich positively hums with vitality. As a novelist, John Updike has never seemed more confidently in control of his material: in this case, an eerily representative American soul undergoing a summer and winter of discontent. Catastrophe no longer dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Crisis of Confidence RABBIT IS RICH by John Updike | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

Brussels is a boring place to study art. It is boring in general. Each night tourists assemble in the Grand Place to watch a light show projected onto the magnificent 15th-century buildings that once housed the craft and trade guilds, as a sound track hums from loud speakers.

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Save Money; Take the Bus | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

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