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Moderator Sandra A. Naddaff, head tutor of the literature concentration, told the group of five faculty and teaching staff members and nine undergraduates gathered in Union Parlor A that she had never observed men speaking more than women in class discussions...
...this marvelously unclassifiable entertainment, which is having a limited run ending this week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, are a witches' brew of cabaret, silent-movie slapstick, Expressionist psychodrama, Japanese theater, lounge lizardry and high-tech wizardry. What keeps it bubbling is a melodic succession of wheezy parlor waltzes, barroom blues, moon-June pop and ersatz Kurt Weill. What gives it fizz is gallows humor, antiwar mockery, sweet sentiment and an inventiveness that more than honors the imperative laid down years ago by Sergei Diaghilev to Jean Cocteau: "Astonish...
...Lynchburg College the previous May. Clough's search began in school and later took him to New York State, where he clerked in a convenience store while sending out resumes. When nothing turned up, he returned to his parents' house in Lynchburg, Virginia, only to have the pizza parlor where he had worked in college reject him as overqualified. That's when the offer from a small Reston, Virginia, accounting firm came through. But Clough's big break meant big disappointment for others: no fewer than 250 people had applied...
Once when he was courting delegates in a scruffy hotel, the prospects were lined up and run through his suite. He stuck his head out of a door during a pause. "Just like a whorehouse," he called. "They bring them into the front parlor, send them into the bedroom with me, and they go out the back door. Satisfied, I hope...
...turned down for membership in a church youth group on the grounds that he was "just too worldly." After graduation he enrolled at Bob Jones College, a Bible boot camp in Tennessee where hand holding was forbidden, and dating was limited to chaperoned chats in a public parlor. Between the rules and the course work, Graham soon found himself on the brink of expulsion and thought about transferring. The legendary Jones warned him about throwing his life away: "At best, all you could amount to would be a poor country Baptist preacher somewhere out in the sticks." Then he tempted...