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Getting a chance to clerk for a judge or work for one of the many law firms that pluck from Harvard each year provides a large carrot at the end of the stick. There is also the hope of getting into one of the three honor societies-law review, board of legal advisers, and legal aid. Admittance to the honoraries has long been strictly on the basis of grades. Now, in line with general dissatisfaction over the emphasis placed on marks, the Legal Aid Bureau has accepted a few members on the basis of other qualifications, and the law review...
Political aloofness, however, is not the most basic hippie trait. That is exploration of affection, of loneliness, of communication in general--a trait which the Beatles pluck from the depths of morbid introspection and express in their own constantly changing musical idiom...
Always Evasive. Despite all the words and resolutions, though, the Socialists and Communists are not about to form a full-scale leftist front. Beneath the current display of comradeship lie decades of bitter enmity, of unforgotten Communist boasts that they would "pluck the Socialist chicken" and Socialist taunts that the Communists were "not left but East." The differences have not been buried. The Socialists still agree with De Gaulle's assessment that "the Communists are not a French party" but "an army" that takes its orders from Moscow. Socialist leaders do not miss the fact that French Communists...
BYRDLAND (Columbia). As one of the first importers of bossa nova, Charlie Byrd still likes to toss off a samba or two on his amplified guitar, and he can pluck soul from folk-blues like Work Song, but mostly he keeps up a sophisticated patter with pop hits (Theme from "Mr. Lucky") and old ballads (I'll Be Around...
...will not take on a part until she has read deeply in the period and "comprehended it with my mind." She does not disown Stanislavsky, but refuses to study him because "I don't want to pluck out the heart of the mystery." While rehearsing The Lion in Winter, she found "Eleanor of Aquitaine's troubles becoming more important to me than my own. It was so painful, so masochistic, I asked why am I torturing myself? Should I play only buoyant, happy parts...