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...Russian peasants, whom he finds "as uncouth and primitive as the Somali Bedouins." And the book is further marred by the same sort of excessive nautical argot (starboard this, lateen that) that makes Moby Dick such a tough sea of words to oar through. But whenever De Monfreid reaches land and begins to describe the gallery of rogues and brutes and generally weird people he claims to meet on his journeys, the book can spellbind...
Though Davenport insisted that the Lampoon's award had never used the theatrical society's name, he did admit that the magazine may have been trading on the theatrical society's prominence to land a big-time celebrity...
...Hamilton community also expressed concern that parts of the land could be resold to developers...
...That is simply not our plan today and will never be our plan to develop [the land] in any for-profit way or sell it to anyone who would that for that matter,” Gray said...
Even if Harvard had sought to sell the land, it may have faced an uphill legal battle because of the restrictions outlined in the will...