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...elaborated by his intellect; Jones's explosive expressions proceed from a simpler impulse. In The Toilet, his most effective play, the action transpires in a latrine. And in this book, described on the dust jacket as an autobiography, he announces aggressively: "This thing, if you read it, will jam your face in my -." It will indeed. On almost every page, Author Jones, who is now 31 years old, makes reference to evacuation-generally to some form of erotic evacuation. The filth is rationalized as social protest and enshrined in religious allegory: Jones explicitly identifies himself with Dante ("Dante...
...ending as the eleven jam-packed coaches of the 5:28 from Durban clattered toward suburban Effingham Junction Station. The cars carried 1,200 blacks returning from their jobs in the city to crowded Kwa Mashu, the native "location" ten miles away. Suddenly, reported an observer, "as I looked along the track, I saw the electric unit at the tail end topple over." With it came the train's last passenger compartment, bouncing like a toy over the jagged fill of the roadbed...
...junior varsity soccer team opened a jam-packed week of Harvard soccer yesterday afternoon by easily whipping the M.I.T. J.V.'s 4 to 0 on the Business School field...
...feather-and-sequin coat. Princess Ira von Furstenberg pranced on in a Mondrian dress by St. Laurent. And princely P.R. Man Serge Obolensky, who had rounded up his titled friends to stage the haute couture parade, beamed as 2,600 ladies and their husbands paid $10 apiece to jam into Alexander's department store in Manhattan to see what fancy duds a bargain outfit could include on its racks -and incidentally stage a benefit for the American Cancer Society...
...fairs made do with just acrobats and dog acts and perhaps a kick line of local chorus girls. Sometimes the whole show was included in the dollar-odd price of admission, right along with the exhibition barns and the competition sheds full of fancy needlework and loganberry jam. At other fairs, an additional couple of dollars per head were charged for the grandstand entertainment, but it was usually a loss leader...