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...team of two fire trucks rapidly extinguished the 6:10 p.m. blaze in the fourth floor suite of the dorm's B-entry. The flames in Canady B-44--which could be seen from the dorm's courtyard--came from a couch apparently ignited by fallen lamp or a faulty electrical circuit...
Although the blaze blackened one wall and portion of the calling Wilson said only the couch and lamp suffered damages by fire and water. "The turntable is tuning about 80 rpm, but it might dry out," he added...
...world of 19th century romanticism. It shows a young man in half-armor lying stiff and composed on the floor of a cave (some mountain charnel-house, perhaps) surrounded by rainy twilight and the glimmer of bones, with a curl of smoke still issuing from an extinguished votive lamp. A vanitas? A more personal lamentation? Impossible to say; yet there is more real feeling in this restrained image than in many a square yard of post-Caravaggian bombast...
...door, however, lurk less pleasant reminders of current Advocate worries. A number of notes beseech members to pay their dues, which have escalated to $40 per year. Another announces. "The Advocate phone has been reconnected" over which someone has scrawled "Phone is dead." A hole in a carpet, a lamp without a shade, a curious emptiness to the threadbare offices all evoke a feeling that good times have come and gone. On a rainy Thursday afternoon, hours before the upcoming issue must be sent to production, only three editors find their way to 21 South Street. "Actually, the fact that...
Except for his proud Gallic nose, the author blends in. He dresses in native furs, cracks the whip expertly over his sled team, and gnaws blubbery popsicles in the glow of an igloo oil lamp. He falls into the rhythms of polar life and begins to view this white-on-white world through the eyes of an Inuit...