Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor have a basic weakness: since all their money comes from the government, any cut off in the government fiscal supply will instantly kill the plan. Pollack adds that poor-only programs may become over-specialized. If they only treat sick poor people, they may lose touch with the real world of American medicine; their techniques will be fine for the ghetto, but they won't apply to the majority of the country that isn't poor...
VIAN maintains a kind of baroque humor throughout, but puns and word games (unfortunately badly translated) shade into black humor which at the novel's end becomes a Kafkaesque surrealism that we find frightening rather than funny. Sartre, who was a real-life friend of Vian's, is amusingly satirized as Jean-Sol Partre, the cult idol who enters packed lecture halls on elephant back, crushing his waiting fans. But when Chick, Colin's friend, sacrifices everything, including his girl-friend Alise, in order to buy Partre's work, the joke turns grisly. Chloe dies from a water-lily growing...
...petition states in part: "Since its inception, [Soc Rel 148/149] has been subjected to continual harassment, on technical and administrative grounds . . . We believe that the real objections to the course are . . . to its radical political content and form...
...Deep as the eyes of a hypocrite who suddenly discovers he must adhere to one of his fronts to survive. Deep as the eyes of a martyr discovering cowardice. Deep as the eyes of a politician turning from an applauding audience and suddenly feeling that only the chair is real. And maybe, at that routine and commonplace moment of rage, she knew something, felt something like the cutting of teeth, like doom., I'm not going to use the eyes in this photo. I'm using the bars of the crib, blown up. I've yet to select a pair...
...highlight of the three-day extravaganza for Harvard partisans was captain-elect Cahalan's victory Thursday in the 50-free. "Mike's triumph was just terrific; a real win." Brooks said yesterday. Cahalan suffered a disappointment in the qualifying heats of the 100-free Saturday. He did the first 50 yards in 21.8, but made a bad turn, taking in a mouthful of water, and failed to qualify...