Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sorry to read about Maurice Stans, the new Secretary of Commerce bagging a rare antelope in the Congo. I wonder if these people who kill in order to have more stimulating "cocktail conversation" are really people with human qualities, love for life, or if they possess any real compassion for anything...
...before. "Jesus!" He leaped from his bed and turned on the light. His whole body had been covered with spiders and snakes and maggots--he had suddenly felt himself part of a swarming, clawing, terrifying bed of slime and dirt. The boy remembered a short story he had read once about a man in a cave filled with spiders. What had there been on the other side of that mountain...
...Registrar's Office to go to Room 812 for a replacement. Which is of little interest in itself. What is of interest is that, on the main desk in Room 812, you will see a two-page Xerox edition of "Directive on the Typing of Study Cards." You may read it as you wait, though to do everyone justice, the wait isn't long. The directive describes at length the fine points of study-card-typing . . . how to clean typewriter keys, what sort of eraser to use, and so forth...
...make a lot of money and keep his name in the papers. He decided that what he really wanted was to avoid being up tight ("Why should I be so wrought up that I pace the floor before a concert?"), have a satisfying marriage, spend time with friends, read philosophy and pursue the charmingly ingenuous notion that he is "alive, sensing, part of the universe." He says: "I could work myself into the grave with my music and the piano, not really learning what life is all about. And I think this is the crux of the change in young...
These men are nervous and upset and tired because they are "on the road" with a Broadway show. They have just read the first editions of the next day's papers, and they have found that Kevin Kelly (drama critic of the Globe) and Eliot Norton (of the Record American) do not like the show they have written. These men sitting around a littered coffee table know that if--when their work opens in New York a month later--Clive Barnes (of the New York Times) does not like their show, they are in big trouble. Their show will close...