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Jailbird, By Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, $9.95): At last, Vonnegut captures the essence of the Harvard Experience: Mid-Western chauffeur's son is packed off to Harvard by a stammering millionaire. He promptly becomes a Communist, serves time in the Roosevelt and Nixon camps, then lands in jail as a Watergate henchman. Praised as the best of Vonnegut's recent works...

Author: By Compiled BY Sue faludi, | Title: Season's Readings | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...barrier between me and the world beyond the road's shoulder as I set out from Detroit heading west on Interstate 80 was the presence of man. In the Great Lakes urban belt--the Mid-western equivalent of the Boston to Washington drive--there is no "real world" to disturb the traveller. Even further west, until the Great Plains start their ascent to the Rockies, the world is unequivocally man's--safe and predictable. There is not a mile of road, from Illinois to Nebraska, down into Colorado, that passes through unfenced land. Along every mile you can see farm...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: The Land Presses In | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...hockey team will swing west for its annual holiday bout with top mid-western squads. The Crimson skaters sport a 1-3 overall and ECAC record entering the recess and have yet to win an Ivy League contest--their worst start since the 1964-65 season...

Author: By John Blondel, | Title: Harvard Teams Have Little Vacation | 12/19/1976 | See Source »

...through most of it, Brando remains cool, almost embarassed. He looks as if he might be a Republican businessman from a small mid-western city--a dark streak there of vicious potential belying his affable, almost naive manner...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: The smell of failure, fear of defeat | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

...Weissbecker concedes that the game of food-price forecasting can often be "imprecise" and that the effects of the mid-Western drought and Hurricane Carmen may well be "very significant...

Author: By Sydney P. Freedberg, | Title: More Problems in Serving the People | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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