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...compact art form, and somewhat unnatural. A person feels uncomfortable composing a little song of himself for the classifieds. The personal ad is like haiku of self-celebration, a brief solo played on one's own horn. Someone else should be saying these things. It is for others to pile up the extravagant adjectives ("sensitive, warm, witty, vibrant, successful, handsome, accomplished, incredibly beautiful, cerebral and sultry") while we stand demurely by. But someone has to do it. One competes for attention. One must advertise. One must chum the waters and bait the hook, and go trolling for love and laughter...
There is nothing in place of the trains yet. "While moving across campus yesterdays, Jewett lost his BayBanks card and has barely had time to get settled. But you can be sure that within a few months, the pile of papers will be just as high in the middle of Harvard Yard as it was in the middle of Radcliffe Yard...
...things pile up and don't finish them of completely," says the recently named dean. He claims that if he could borrow one quality from his predecessor, it would be Fox's persistent efficiency. He praises the 6-ft., 9-in. dean for his "efficient management of a whole host of problems...
Though many make needed money from their music, most say that the amount they make has little to do with how well they feel they have been accepted. "I'll come home and there you have a pile of money in your case. It doesn't click," says Luke Hunsberger. "It's hard to connect the money with people's appreciation...
...living deep in a heavily guarded jungle compound surrounded by bodyguards and police dogs. Frankly, a lot of the material we have found is very dreary." Thus ended one of the most dramatic searches of the century, not in a blaze of justice but, quietly, in a pile of bones...