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...want to stand at the rim of the world," he once wrote, "and peer into the darkness beyond, and see a little more than others have see, of the strange shapes of mystery that inhabit that unknown night...I want to bring back into the world of men some little bit of new wisdom. There is a little wisdom in the world; Heraclitus, Spinoza, and saying here and there. I want to add to it, even if only ever so little...
...signs of repression or nervousness despite the danger of discussing such matters as politics on the street (I am told that public places abound with trench-coated slouch-hatted secret police types though I never noticed any myself), Propriety must be observed and the Croats and Slovenes (who inhabit the North) are probably fully accustomed to its necessity after several hundred years under Austian domination. It certainly does not effect their day to day behavior as similar restrictions might in either Italy or France...
Approximately 500 dogs, 1000 monkeys, 1000 cats, and 50,000 rodents will inhabit a new $900,000 Animal Research Center to be run by the Harvard Medical School. Bernard F. Trum, lecturer on veterinary medicine in the Department of Pathology, will direct the new center...
...refugee from Greenwich Village). The focus of infection formerly was a group of improvisers called the Compass Players, celebrated for bringing forth Mike Nichols. Elaine May and Shelley Berman; currently it is a cabaret and theater called Second City (TIME, March 21, 1960). Dozens of satirical revues now inhabit the cellars of Chicago's Near North Side, but the Feiffer view of the '60s is one of the best...
Electric Shocks. There is a good deal of Jean Kerr in Mary, Mary, a play that one critic described as "five characters releasing an author." The characters inhabit an unashamedly prefabricated plot (about a divorced couple who, of course, get together again), but it is full of humor and insight. All situation comedy is clockwork; what matters is who makes the clock. Like Jean Kerr, the heroine is a compulsive wisecracker: years ago, when her husband made his first tentative pass, she told him, "Let's not start something we can't finish in a taxi on 44th Street." Like...