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...Representatives accept the watered-down civil rights bill passed by the Senate? Joe Martin was all for shelving the bill in hopes of getting a better one in Election Year, 1958. But Martin and like-minded Republicans were fighting a lonely battle. They had been left in the lurch by such organizations as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Americans for Democratic Action and the A.F.L.-C.I.O., all of which, after years of making 100% civil rights an article of faith, were now willing to settle for less. Editorialists and cartoonists who only a few weeks...
Pursuit of Nymphets. The theme of Nabokov's Lolita is the carnal pursuit of a twelve-year-old American girl named Dolores Haze by a middle-aged European emigre in the U.S. named Humbert Humbert. The lurch toward the farcical, implicit in the hero's name, sets the mood and tempo of the entire work. The first of the novel's two volumes becomes an elaborately breakneck, amorally funny chase that mixes the Marx Brothers with Krafft-Ebing. This blurs but does not erase the underlying sensuality of Humbert's admittedly perverse tastes...
...rather live on bread alone, there are other ways to get your vitamins. For pure satisfaction, nothing beats sitting in the house library until the evening visit of the milk-and-doughnuts man. Lurch nosily to your feet at his whistle, and lope the length of the library with hunger in every movement. It drives the poor grinds nuts...
...Every hour counts, every hour lost may be paid for in blood and disorder," cried Paris' Combat. Last week the fate of France's empire in North Africa continued its lurch toward decision. Both sides-the Arabs, who impatiently demand a measure of independence, and the French colonists, who would deny it to them-knew...
Fiery cheerleader, Peter T. Lurch immediately suggested a male and female protest meeting at President's Dodd's House, but most students contacted thought the best thing to do would be to head for New York...