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Alisande L. Citron '76, a Hollis resident, said that "I wish this dorm had been coed." Joan T. Freeman, another Hollis resident said that "while it was interesting being a guinea pig, I really think that separate entries were not successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Endorse Coeducation of Yard | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

Perhaps sensing that the hearings were hurting him, Gray pleaded with the Judiciary Committee to report his nomination promptly to the full Senate. "I have attempted to answer every question," he said. "You are not buying a pig in a poke." Almost abjectly, he described himself as innocently caught in a crossfire: "Now in the middle stands your humble and obedient servant, Pat Gray." Under heavy questioning by California Democrat John

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Deepening Doubts About the Top Cop | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...that "some of the prisoners do want it." And not only for the money involved, or for a possible break from parole boards. A major attraction in many cases, says Schwartz, is that "for a while you are treated as a human being, even though you are a guinea pig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Cons as Guinea Pigs | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

Every male chauvinist pig of a certain age can remember the movie, where the docile wife (played by Luise Rainer, German accent and all, for an Oscar) labored in the fields alongside her husband until the very day of their first child's birth-and went back to work the following day. The book's view of China was both highly sentimental and earthily detailed. The Good Earth was not a great novel, but it eventually helped win its author the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature. Said one orator at the ceremonies: "You have taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Earth to Earrh | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

Mark Kramer's Mother Walter and the Pig Tragedy is an uneasy eulogy for the dying remnant. It's the foreshadowing of a requiem we'll probably be too busy to sing, for an eccentric community, which Kramer calls "Clabberville," of western Massachusetts farmers. The book is not a romance; it doesn't try to win you back to the land with the cheerleading tone of some pseudo-Movement drivel. The book is personalized journalism, comprising 28 pieces which Kramer wrote for the old Phoenix. These are honest first-hand sketches of the blessings and limits of rural existence...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Eulogies and Apologies | 3/17/1973 | See Source »

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