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...those who may still think of Extension study as recreational pap to pacify bored housewives and a variety of drop-outs, let me emphasize at the start that Harvard's Commission on Extension Courses is no cognitive picnic. Ranging through Architecture, Afro-American Studies, Geology, Physics, Urban Studies. Visual Arts, Zoology, and seven foreign languages, to mention only a modest selection, Extension embraces a constellation of germinal courses demanding concerted mental investment from widely disparate consumers. A broad cross-section of men and women at all levels of formal and experiential ability enhance the academic process with diversity, enthusiasm...
...epitaph. In the course of a career that spanned seven decades (from his first job as cartoonist for a local paper in Joplin), Benton became the most popular 20th century American artist. His belligerently folksy murals, full of the pleasures of the hoedown and the Fourth of July picnic, the innocence of hillbilly Arcadia and the rigors of the frontier, were the very furniture of patriotism. And Benton's popularity was largely the result of a character he cultivated, or home-grew, for himself: the coarse-talking, no-nonsense man of the people, the Pa Kettle of American...
...western, in which "everyone will be women-even the Indians." Margaux's elder sister Joan, 24, is more traditional. Co-author of the 1974 thriller Rosebud, a trendy caper of international kidnaping that has already been made into a movie, she is now working on a gourmet picnic cookbook. But Margaux's fame may soon surpass Joan's. "I'm into singing now," says Margaux. What kind? A nightclub repertory of "rich, happy blues...
...blustery winter evenings only a week before Christmas, year in and year out, six old men sit sipping coffee around a picnic table inside a gas station located off the Bellefonte State College exit off Interstate-80. There, to their backs, stand a full barrage of vending machines along with racks of groceries. In front of them, through the breath-fogged, plate glass windows, another carload of home-bound college kids unloads, and the men stop talking, bracing themselves for the next invasion of brash, Harvard-educated Southerners, Westerners or Midwesterners...
...some sort of sense of honor, straggle back into Bellefonte, Pa. The men and the snow and the Bald Eagle Mountain are still there. Only this time, the conversation continues unperturbed by visitors, who slip in quietly and lay envelopes full of lost bets on their picnic table and leave...