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...Wolfe took up with Francine Mintz, the new girl in 3-303, our friendship ended and we lost touch. Kenny and I followed different routes to Harvard--Wolfe's led straight from the James Madison High School basketball team to the Crimson hoopsters...
When coaches from Yale, Stanford and the University of Virginia came to our high school to woo our basketball players, Kenny was dazzling, bringing the James Madison hoopsters into the limelight. Eliot advised Kenny to guard against the steak dinners at the Yale Club and contact Harvard. (Harvard has a rule forbidding coaches from courting perspective Crimson cagers.) Following his brother's suggestion, Wolfe applied to Harvard and was admitted...
...Madison Square Garden from Manhattan College, you have to take the Broadway IRT from 242nd St. down to 168th St. and change there for the IND Eighth Ave. line. When Fordham is playing Manhattan at Madison Square Garden, the Manhattan fans make this pilgrimage at least two hours before the contest so that they can be properly soused before game time...
...protest seemed a possibility. Now, not four years later, we read of a return to normality on college campuses, of a re-emphasis on academic endeavor. This past fall, the powers that be even discerned a wave of apathy breaking over educational institutions from Cambridge to Berkeley and from Madison to Austin. Yes, colleges and universities had survived the turmoil of the 1960s...
...allies he ranges far and wide. He examines fellow Latin American artists like Pablo Neruda (whom he calls "a poetic continent") and the film maker Luis Bunuel (whom he compares to Goya). He looks to Marshall McLuhan, then looks away from him -as a "prophet," alas, only of Madison Avenue...