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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happen to hit the Square tonight, look around, you can't miss them. They look like George Gobel dressed up as a leprechaun, wearing their green high school jackets, blue jeans with a GREEN POWER sticker plastered on the crotch, and boots that have "kick-ass" patterned across the toe in dirt...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Calypso Singers Laugh at Them; The (Indian) Circus Is In Town | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

...added problem is the questionable status of quarterback Dave Smith. Smith twisted an ankle in practice last Thursday, and didn't work out yesterday. He will probably miss the game this afternoon, and his loss will deprive the Crimson of the only experienced signal caller. Juniors John O'Grady and Joe Roda will replace him, but the novelty of having them at quarterback may retard the Crimson from moving as early as it should...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Harvard Hosts Dartmouth in Crucial Game | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

...keep from "going round the bend," Barrymaine devised elaborate daily routines. He ended each day by dictating faintly remembered news stories into a make-believe telephone. "Oh, Miss Jones," the ritual began, "I've got a good lead for today." When he had finished "filing" the story, he sometimes put in another imaginary call-to his 25-year-old daughter in London. He found the perfect use for China's stiff brown toilet paper: he made himself a deck of cards out of it and played solitaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of the Ordeal | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...unsuccessful French actor who died insane in 1948. He was also a visionary and a prophet with a dream of what theater might be. In poetic though sometimes muzzy language, he coined the idea of "a theater of cruelty." To interpret the phrase solely by conventional usage is to miss a great deal of what Artaud meant by it. For example, he wrote, "Everything that acts is a cruelty," and "Cruelty is rigor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Secular Holiness | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

ANGELS FALLING by Janice Elliott. 409 pages. Knopf. $6.95. Miss Elliott's three generation chronicle of a British family named Garland-many of whose members betray great emotion by throwing up -reads a bit like the Forsyte Saga eviscerated for television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Week: The Literary Overflow | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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