Word: portias
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...Slip me a spare match, sister?" inquired one tweed-beaten young man at the corner. Portia didn't smoke; and moved on in injured innocence...
...Common Man more things are tedious than tragic. But the saga of Portia Parsley is a legitimate tragedy--one of the great wastes we think about over stale beer and dirty postcards...
...started a week ago. Portia--a toothy, freckled, hayseed and broom-bottom blonde from North Dakota's School of Co-ed Agriculture--began her first week of Harvard's summer session with a stroll. The day was heavy with clouds and traffic and disillusion, a time of ivory idols crumbling and tears in the lemonade. For Portia's dream died hard...
...paused in the shadow of Widener to apply a roll-on deodorant stick, and the past (like so much Proust) loomed up with the moist of memory. For four long years Portia had pursued the stuff and stench of animal husbandry. She had mastered the chemistry of manure and the physics of the plow. She had emerged from North Dakota Ag (crossing a calf with a jumping bean for ready-made cheese) summa cum laude. And all those years she had nourished a dream...
...Portia's big disappointment had come early in life. About the same time she realized that cows and the local Lotharios wanted something different around the haystack, she also discovered (for peripheral reasons) that she would never get to Harvard. And Portia had always wanted the best...