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...Every Nook. Indeed, it is space-at a budget price-that most attracts members of the new storefront community. Though the warehouse-like interiors with 14-ft. ceilings often cost $60 per month to heat, the rent averages only $150, half that charged for Chicago apartments of similar size. Tenants use every nook and cranny, partitioning off sleeping berths, closets and workshops with hanging plants or plywood. One innovative interior decorator, who moved into a former ice cream parlor, now serves cocktails instead of sarsaparilla from behind the old soda fountain...
Pusey adapted well to the Harvard of the fifties, and he must be given credit (or blame) for Harvard's golden age of expansion. James Byrant Conant set up General Education, but Nathan Pusey implemented it, and brought it to every corner of every geographical nook and cranny in the United States...
...Auden recently had $117 stolen from him. Sighed he: "Ironically, I had to leave New York and come to Oxford to get robbed." After his comments kicked up a transatlantic furor, Auden, anxious to regain some measure of privacy, hastened to add, "I have a nice little nook in college, so why should I complain...
...Jazz Goes to College, Brubeck Time* and Impressions of Eurasia than their paperbacks of Steppenwolf or The Catcher in the Rye. But five years ago Brubeck suddenly disbanded what was probably the most popular jazz quartet of the post-World War II era. He had earned his secure nook in history and was hankering after other accomplishments. For one thing, he wanted to compose serious music-and he soon turned out three major religious works, including The Gates of Justice, a Negro-Hebraic summons to brotherhood, and Truth Is Fallen, a lament for the victims of Kent and Jackson State...
...impatience. Economically, they have made considerable progress. But this progress is most impressive in comparison with the blacks' past condition, not in comparison with white achievements. The black sense of inequality is, if anything, growing. Says the Ford Foundation's Roger Wilkins: "Racism is in every nook and cranny in this country, and each of us blacks has to deal with it every day of our lives. Any overview of black life in this country that does not include the word pain is hopelessly deficient...