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That summer led him from a sign on a bulletin board in Harvard Yard to southwest Georgia, where brigades of students organized at the Cambridge Institute worked on a collective farm held by black sharecropper families; where, on Featherfield Farm, he weeded peanut fields, harvested watermelons, lived with sharecroppers, and learned about things that he, as a student, had never been close to. He also kept a journal, a present-tense day-by-day record and commentary that, as he finally had to admit to himself, he hoped to publish. With a very little editing, that journal became Watermelon Summer...
Danny comes from West Texas cattie-handling stock. He has never been any place he could not drive to, and he loves the road and his car. He is also hooked on trashy highway food: butter rum Life Savers, Peanut Planks, cheap cheeseburgers. A brief, miserable marriage does not alter his open approach to life, nor does he fall for the blandishments of publishers and movie pro ducers - although they give McMurtry a chance to kid literary parties and Hollywood editing methods...
Anne Henning, a cheery, curly-haired blonde who never travels without her lucky Snoopy button and a large supply of peanut butter, does not miss the social life that is ruled out by her training regimen. Says she: "There are lots of boys in the training group too, you know." Dianne Holum, a fiercely dedicated competitor who worked as a waitress last year to help finance a three-month training stint in The Netherlands, adds: "I don't mind the sacrifices. An Olympic gold medal is a life's ambition come true." Even so, the demands are such...
During the 1968 campus uprising at Columbia, nearly half the students who "liberated" university buildings were girls from Barnard College. But while the men mounted the barricades, the women mostly sat in the back rooms, cranking out leaflets or making peanut-butter sandwiches. Many of them resolved then and there never again to defer to male "machismo trippers." Since that time, the cause of Women's Lib in academe has flourished. Next to local voting rights, it is now the most visible cause on major campuses that otherwise seem free of controversy and revolt this year...
...specific things was chewing doors. The teaching method? Simple: "We smeared the doorjambs with peanut butter." Another task: to nibble on people. Di Sesso's son, 18, spent a good part of three months lying down in a large box, his body covered with peanut butter, while baby rats ate their fill. "We kept adding more and more rats until finally we had 200 crawling over him," says Di Sesso. Young Di Sesso admits to having been a bit frightened at first, but by the end "I was laughing out loud." Reason? They tickled...