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Easy Living concerns the escapades of two American expatriates who sleep in or about Paris and London. One, a bastard named only Wyeth, moves from bed to bed, uncaring and undiscriminating, seeking only to assuage a deep-down itch. His friend, Harry Steiner, is escaping from his middle-class Bronx past, from the squares back home, from his own terrible insecurity. They dig the easy life, the life of least resistance, the life of escape via jazz, junk, drink...
...from a Stuttgart concert to put on a special Saturday afternoon party for Hoosman's Munich children. Last week Munich's Lord Mayor Thomas Wimmer promised Hoosman official support for "your great cause." Al Hoosman of Waterloo, Iowa, a man with a cause, as well as an itch to write verse, combined his two interests...
...venture started with an itch to travel, but when Teacher James Hamlett's westbound airliner began bumping through rough air over Texas, the itch turned to queasiness. At Dallas, Hamlett phoned the State Department in dismay. He had quit a job as a French and Spanish teacher at Knoxville College to take a teaching job in Cambodia under the U.S.'s International Educational Exchange program. He still wanted to teach, he told Washington, but could something be done about the air currents? He hung up reassured; there was passage available on a ship, and it did not much...
Toward the tag end of winter, when the Oxford or Cambridge undergraduate has been sewn into the hair shirt of academic strictures for dismal months, he begins to itch. As Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford or Cambridge, circa 1360, according to tradition) wrote about the approach of spring, "thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages." Last week at both universities, students were dreamily reviewing intricate plans for a modern form of the pilgrimage -the scholarly expedition. Some 20 such safaris-a record-breaking number-will set out from Oxbridge this June. They range from a one-undergraduate orchid hunt in Venezuela...
...near the water, scheduled a breakfast-to-dinner round of indoor conferences with his underlings. But his battle against pleasure made little headway with the majority of some 200 labor chiefs, relatives and staffers, who refreshed themselves on the beach with a mammoth rum drink called the "Tropical Itch," went sun-scorched to San Juan's casinos and nightclubs...