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...some foolish dream, Bip unabashedly exposes yearnings in ourselves which perhaps we try to hide behind a shield of cynicism. Marceau says of Bip, now more than a quarter of a century old, "I see him before me, fully matured, winking his eye at me near that ancient street lamp, no longer just an active witness, but a true personification of the great passion of men on earth...
...spent the evening with a girl, who was then a close friend and was then from the South, reading Absalom, Absalom! for our English 700 exam (back then it was and it deserved to be called 700). We read to each other by the light of a street lamp on the bridge next to the secret plaque marking the spot from which Quentin was said to have jumped. Such dedication to Faulknerian trivia is cute for a sophomore, but it is unproductive for an official biographer...
...nearly two millenniums, the feast of Passover has been a lamp of hope in the dark night of Jewish existence. In ghetto and concentration camp, amidst pogrom or Inquisition, it has reminded Jews the world over that the Lord who led them out of Egypt would set them free again...
...road to recovery from root disease. The indoor plant, belonging to a childless couple, had been wilting, yellowing and defoliating. Worse, when its owners-they prefer the term parents-talked to it, the philodendron would not listen. They gave it fertilizer treats, bathed it with the sun lamp and, fearing insect infestation, sponged its leaves with Baby-Wipes dipped in Scotch. Finally, in despair, the philodendrophiles called Karl Robinson's Mother Nature Hospital. At last report, the plant was out of intensive care and listening again...
...tape variously in Manhattan, Cambridge, Salt Lake City, New Haven, Murray Hill, N.J., and Los Gatos, Calif. They were supplied with the now-celebrated Uher 5000 tape recorder used by Rose Mary Woods for transcribing subpoenaed tapes, another White House Uher recorder for comparison, as well as Miss Woods' lamp and typewriter...