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...groups share numerous features; and, in fact, the celebrated G. & S. "patter songs" have their origin in the non-stop pnigos passages in Aristophanes' plays...
Despite the White House decision to cool the tough talk, East-West relations are likely to remain tense for some time. U.S. officials are frustrated over the non-stop buildup of the Soviet nuclear and conventional arsenal, the provocative Russian gambits in Africa and Moscow's failure to reciprocate Washington's unilateral moves in support of détente, such as Carter's cancellation of the B-1 bomber and his deferment of neutron bomb production. There is, in fact, a feeling in Washington that superpower relations may be entering a delicate transition period. Observes...
...seemed to be right there--college life, minus the intellectual content, transported to a warm climate where most people are strangers. Namo and I have sneered at the Freshman Mixer for years now, but something--wanderlust or maybe perverse interest--had nonetheless brought us to one big goddam non-stop, open-air, all-East Freshman Mixer. There were new elements to it, of course. The Harvard mixer had no Midwesterners cruising in turquoise Firebirds with tailwings and racing stripes. It had no 30-year-old hangers-on. It had no wet t-shirt contests. Elvis Presley could never have made...
...magnitude of his statement only hit me later on. In a classic cinematic double take--which obviously warmed the cockles of the woman behind me--I realized that my non-existent mathematical proclivities had once again done me in. Ten plus four-and-a-half equals 2:30, not 12:30. We were non-stop and there was no way to call my friend and warn him. So I waited calmly, read my book, and wondered just how pissed off he would...
...folk orgy" sponsored by WHRB has been held semi-annually, fall and spring, for the last 15 years. "It's an eight-hour, non-stop, live performance in front of an audience simultaneously broadcasted over the air," Julianne Chatelain '79, publicity coordinator for the orgy, said...