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What we realized on the short drive from my roommate's house to the hill-top school in Newport, R.I., was that no one would be there. Most everyone was, no doubt, off for Christmas break as we were. Disappointed, and embarassed over our own stupidity, we decided to take a look anyway, having little else to do for the afternoon. Instead of snow, a chilling drizzle had fallen since morning, and we quickly became irritated when bad directions sent us circling back into town toward the seafood restaurants and little olde craft shoppes...
...mind is like a house, a labyrinthine structure with windows overlooking the soul on one side and the world on the other. Often discovering darkened halls in the light of day. Channing loses himself in his own house. With neither firmly entrenched transcendental beliefs nor a classical sensibility, the Newport-born preacher appears to live under a roof at once dilapidated and unfinished...
...John Holmes, Bear Creek's president, and Vice President David Stump, an escapee from Orange County, Calif. The job offered is for Bear Creek's in-house advertising agency. "When we set up the agency back in 1961," says Stump, "we had to keep it down in Newport Beach, Calif. We simply couldn't get anybody creative to come up here." Tunes have changed. The ad brought answers from all over. Deans of colleges. Poets. Newspaper editors. East Coast ad-agency directors. A philosophy major now teaching history. The creative director of a national rock-music corporation...
...This team had a lot to prove today,' Coach Doug Tashian said yesterday after his freshman soccer team used a new field alignment and a hat trick by Morgan Belford to trounce the Naval Prep Rams of Newport...
...Ladies Sing the Blues (featuring Big Maybelle, Little Esther, Albinia Jones, Miss Rhapsody and Linda Hopkins) is a must-have primarily because of an entire side by Big Maybelle (eight tracks), one of the most explosive singers of all time. Born Mabel Smith in 1924, she reduced the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival to ashes with her performance. Unfortunately she died after a long bout with heroin in 1972. She is sorely missed...