Word: papering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolt against his immediate past he turned back to the present, to the worlds he had neglected during his years in the Widener stacks. Two years before he had been married, to a newspaperwoman; not one of those who drinks her coffee black and eats the paper cup to prove she's no pansey, but a vibrant and gracious women whose style is as ample as his own. In love, his apprenticeship now over, he must have begun to appraise Miller's legacy. He might have seen Miller's desire to record all of the American spirit as an impossible...
...CRIMSON's perpetual bias towards SDS news stories and anti-Administration editorials is by now no surprise to anyone who reads the paper regularly. I know with dismal certainty that each issue I see will contain the same proportion of radical rhetoric on every page...
...somehow, a nicer word than hallucinations) into excellent prose. In "The Serpent of Kundalini" he turns a literary trick I have never seen before; he sketches a symbol so vividly that the concept behind it is assimilated long before it is explicitly stated. The symbol is a sort of paper-bag human frame crumpling at various points in the story, and the concept is that of an alternative not take, one of our potential selves that begins to die once we have made the relevant decision against it. Nice; but not the science fiction I once knew...
There was a crude black hand sketched on the paper. Nothing, apparently, came...
...SHOULD BE no secret that the CRIMSON and the Yearbook have been engaged in something very close to civil war for the last month. The problem is the CRIMSON Photo Annual, a one-dollar paper-back released a couple of weeks ago, which the Yearbook people seem to see as an invasion of their turf. I'm a partisan in this fracas. If an inexpensive collection of pictures by CRIMSON photographers can substitute for the Yearbook's $11.95 package of nostalgia, then I am happy to see capitalism run its course. If the Yearbook really is an anachronism, cartels...