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...these observations lack the polish of La Rochefoucauld or Stendhal, they serve the author's high purpose. Singled Out is not, after all, a pillow book. It is a guide for the perplexed, who are warned away from useless rage and grief, and humanely advised to "behave with a certain kindness, civility and tact, to ease one another's passage through this changeable and occasionally brutal world." Such counsel may not be quoted in the Playboy Philosophy, but it ought to be singled out for inclusion with every marriage license - and separation paper...
...gigged around Texas, working the kind of joint that advertises a prohibitive $100 cover charge for blacks only, and by the time he was 20 he was sleeping on the beach in Venice, Calif., using his amplifier as a pillow. There was not much else to do with it; work was short. He tried San Francisco, then went back home to Texas for "a stretch of riding the rails with hard-luck guys." He wound up in New York City, where he landed a job playing guitar in a Texas-style musical at Joseph Papp's Public Theater...
...symposium resumed at 8:30 the following morning for a series of lectures at Gund Hall, Levitt spoke about small entrepreneurs. quoting Lewis Mumford and the needlepoint legend on a pillow a friend gave her. Buckwald, who noted that. "It is no accident that Knoll invited a humorist to discuss the topic of creative leadership." said. "The organization responsible for all our troubles in the Middle East is the Harvard Business School--if they hadn't taught the sons of Arah sheiks to-screw us, oil would be $3 a harrel...
...Yorkais say, for le nitty-gritty. Rumor has it that the celebrated Algonquin serves bad food. "This information is absolutely erroneous. In fact, it is very bad." At Tavern on the Green, they serve a banana cheesecake "that would have smothered Desdemona faster than her pillow." At the "21" Club, which is not a club at all but a place to be seen, the cuisine is "irregular: one time it's bad, another time it's worse." At P.J. Clarke's, they serve un hamburger that is "both cooked to death and cold and even an English...
...after 9 p.m., but her thesis was due in 148 hours, and she resolved to try to write at least her conclusion. She glanced at the placard on the wall above her that had "TYPE" in block letters, but its hypnotic effect had long worn off. She adjusted the pillow she was sitting on, thumbed through her notecards, and decided to put some Tchaikovsky on the stereo...