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...Moreover, Quill, a sick man who had had several heart attacks and slept with an oxygen tank by his bedside, was under heavy pressure from his union to win bigger wage hikes than he had been settling for. He realized that this might be his Last Hurrah...
...failure of the novel is that the central characters are interesting neither as individual persons, nor as case studies of their generation. Not special enough for the former role nor representative enough for the latter, they're just dull. One really can't get himself to give a jolly hurrah about. Mary's search for happiness or Betsy's search for unhappiness, and after reading along for a while, it soon becomes plain how a bored psychiatrist feels...
...builders claim that for $1,000 extra, they can build this kind of soundproofing into a new $20,000 house. For that kind of money, the public's response to low-decibel domiciles is likely to be a loud hurrah...
...Houses voted last Wednesday to extend House parietal hours to midnight on Saturday evenings after home football games. The Committee thus restored to the large fraction of Harvard undergraduates who ignore football games the privileges they would ordinarily have had if another large fraction did not ignore them. Hurrah...
...Hurrah for Cinsburg...