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When students returned to school last fall, many of them were greeted with a surprise--additional roommates. Overcrowding in the Houses reached crisis proportions, with six Houses forced to accommodate between five and ten per cent overflow...
...tried to order the disorder of his marriage lies, in reams of rejected drafts and re-drafts, in several cardboard cartons. On them the writer has pasted a quotation from Flaubert, speaking of how art can become "an outlet for passion, a kind of chamberpot to catch an overflow. It smells bad; it smells of hate." So, however, does Roth's book, despite all the cool distance of formal self-consciousness: it is impossible to read a book which treats a writer's life with such sordid particularity and not find oneself automatically extending the sordidness to the real writer...
...campaign since the Depression had aroused such interest or such strong emotions. "I realized in 1972 that we needed a change to free ourselves from mentally constipated attitudes," Novelist White (The Eye of the Storm) told an overflow crowd in Sydney's stunning new Opera House. "Mr. Whitlam has helped Australians to heave themselves out of that terrible morass which caused so many talented Australians to leave the country for the wider world outside, where their ideas and ideals won recognition." Said the Prime Minister: "We have given Australia a new pride and standing in the world ... We have...
...could not finish better than third at the Santa Anita Derby several weeks earlier. When there seemed to be a chance to narrow down the Derby field in the Wood Memorial in New York in mid-April, that race had to be split into two sections to handle the overflow of entrants. One winner, Rube the Great, is considered a strong Derby contender, but the other, Flip Sal, is largely untested. The only horse to show solid promise thus far is Judger, winner of the Florida Derby and the Blue Grass Stakes with come-from-behind spurts down the homestretch...
Dean, 35, testified first, drawing an overflow crowd of spectators to the Manhattan courtroom. Suddenly it was last summer again, except that this time the man he accused-former Attorney General John Mitchell-was seated 20 ft. away from him. Every detail of Dean's testimony evoked his riveting appearance at the Senate's Watergate hearings -the poker face, the pursed lips, the flat, unemotional voice naming names, dates, places, building a case against the man whom he had once described as his "father figure." Mitchell had been Dean's boss at the Department of Justice...