Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that three-quarters went to predominantly white high schools, that former Afro president Jeff Howard thinks "Afro-American Studies is the manifestation of a few political realities just as much at fair Harvard as at San Francisco State,"and that whites are ill-advised to try instantly to pump black acquaintances for their views on the Problem. Harlon Dalton's introduction, provocatively addressed to those "for whom the Black experience is not a birthright," is terribly convincing: on the evidence of these pages, there is a great deal for whites to envy in the articulateness and heterogeneous but coherent community...
Harvard is still aimed primarily at alumni. There is still "The College Pump," written by someone named Primus IV, and still "Harvardiana." There are still the special offers (a set of bronze John Harvard bookends, a coffee table with the Seal in the middle), and the alumni notes and obituaries (which are set in two different typestyles so you can tell them apart...
...Wolfe wreaks havoc with the old, comfortable under/over thirty dichotomy. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test--published simultaneously last summer with The Pump House Gang, his second collection of essays--established Wolfe as the Boswell of acid beside Ken Kesey's Doctor Johnson. The book's ecstatic, exploding prose reads like the litany of a convert. Yet while he sees Kesey's Merry Pranksters as the hippie prototypes of an increasing search for religious experience in America, Wolfe himself felt no personality change during his contact with them. Unlike Mailer, Wolfe appears to have preserved the distinction between participant...
...eloquent, 24-minute litany of Ulster's tangled ills and animosities, and when she sat down, the M.P.s roared their approval, waving their order papers like banners, reaching out to pump her hand wildly or scribbling notes to be passed to her. In a debating chamber not often moved by words, Bernadette's had banged like Bogside paving stones. But the next night, in the privacy of her 22nd-birthday dinner, she was wistful about the loss of her days of innocence as a student protester in blue jeans and bulky sweater. "I believe standing for this Parliament...
...previous albums Dylan wrote with a brute, manic verbal agility, unerringly treading the fine line between preciousness and overstatement. Thing of "The pump don't work / cause the vandals took the han-dle" or "I've got the fever / Down in my pock-ets" of "And the jelly-faced women all sneeze...