Word: rest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Northerners makes its way down. These Yankees are coming for a special purpose. Instead of looking for the simple amusement they could find in one of the North's Fun Cities, these pioneers are following a dream. They are following one of the two Great Southern Myths that the rest of the nation has concocted for its lower regions, and nearly all of their reaction to the South is determined before they leave, by their choice of which dream to follow...
First: the vast majority of the people who "live and work at Harvard" are transient in that they have no intention whatsoever of remaining in Cambridge for the rest of their lives. Therefore they have no permanent interest in what happens to The City of Cambridge as a working community...
Unlike the rest of the news board, we on the sports board can't offer you the intimate companionship of beautiful girls or the opportunity to meet John Kenneth Galbraith. But the first you can do on your own and the second probably isn't worth the time. What we have to offer is obvious--Harvard's sports teams, around 17 at last count. We'll cover the pro teams in greater depth this Winter and if you come out now, who knows but you may spend most of reading period in the Boston Garden press...
...first-person narrator, Joey Bertell, the only one in the novel who comes on like the white tornado. He has sung and danced as well as Fred Astaire, is a more cunning producer than David Susskind, more urbane than CBS Board Chairman William Paley, ad nauseam. The rest of the characters are ill-disguised caricatures of CBS executives. They are such a kinky crew that the reader may well wonder how CBS stays in business...
Bespectacled Ray Kroll, 18, of College Springs, Wash., the Army private who is the focus for all the activities, sat quietly today near the altar reading a magazine, occasionally answering a question put to him. Several times he disappeared into the basement for a rest...