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JOHN H. UPDIKE '54 hopped back to Cambridge one cold day in December from his Ipswich home! With long legs and arms that flopped around with nonchalant grace, he scaled the Crimson steps looking like a suburban squire should, work-booted, wearing nondescript dungarees and a good sweater gone bad. With eyes looking out from a face somewhere between a hawk's and a gnome's, he glanced at the fading pictures of fading editors on our tack-marked cork bulletin board, and asked the photographer. "How did you get those black borders on them?" Mechanical details and competence...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike Redux | 3/22/1972 | See Source »

...title coyly suggest, Dealing traffics in drugs. Its hero is one Peter Harkness, a rather nondescript kid who lives off campus, listens to rock, fails to show up for his law boards, and occasionally mentions the approach of an hour exam as if to indicate that some cursed family ghost has just entered the room. So much for authenticity. For Peter rooms with John, rich aesthete and part-time dealer who soon has the pliable Pete off on a jet to Berkeley to pick up some dope. (Question then: when is a dealer a dealer instead of a pusher? When...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Grass, Acid, Talent... | 2/8/1972 | See Source »

John H. Updike '54 hopped back to Cambridge one cold day in December from his Ipswich home. With long legs and arms that flopped around with nonchalant grace, he scaled the Crimson steps looking like a suburban squire should, work-booted, wearing nondescript dungarees and a good sweater gone bad. With eyes looking out from a face somewhere between a hawk's and a gnome's, he glanced at the fading pictures of fading editors on our tack-marked cork bulletin board, and asked the photographer "How did you get those black borders on them?" Mechanical details and competence...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike Redux | 2/2/1972 | See Source »

RICHARD NIXON'S latest exercise in personal diplomacy moves this week to a site of isolation and simplicity: a nondescript town hall in the Azores, a chain of volcanic specks in mid-Atlantic 2,400 miles from Washington. The two days of talks that he will hold there with France's President Georges Pompidou begin a round of summits that will continue into the new year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Meetings Are the Message | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...Bacon Death, by Marsha Paterson. The author was a totally nondescript young woman except for a look of anguish on her face. She handed me this fantastically greasy book and fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cookie Baking in America | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

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