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...Wrestling lessons would be at the top of my list, with a few lessons on acting as a close second and haircuts a definite third. As I watched yet another wrestler gesture at his groin, I realized that my mace was futile; what I really needed was 18,000 paperback copies of Emily Post...
...Coop will order *every* course book for *every* course at Harvard," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message. "Some 200-level course in advanced Tibetan needs five copies of an obscure paperback published in Katmandu, the Coop will order them--and absorb all the risks and costs of returns, short sales, faculty anger when 7 copies are actually needed...
...days, every little cafe on the Left Bank seemed to have one. Americans were drawn to them. Someone whom Ripley's friend Dickie Greenleaf might have known at Princeton would wander into a Left Bank cafe, fully committed to behaving like a French intellectual. He'd be carrying a paperback copy of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. He would promise himself to spend most of the afternoon staring down into his drink the way French intellectuals always stared down at their drinks in Left Bank cafes--either because they had just thought of something profoundly ironic or because...
...finally decided to put our log-cabin Web dreams on hold and search the old-fashioned way--at a bookstore. I bought a paperback called America's Favorite Inns, B&Bs, and Small Hotels (St. Martin's; $22). I was relieved to see that each city was neatly pinpointed on a detailed map, and most had good descriptions to help me figure out where in Maine we should go in the first place. Even better, I could read the book in bed or on the subway. It was so civilized...
...features historic displays of artwork and literature of apocalypse and utopia. Paperback works of science fiction are also on display...