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Russell. Nor would it do when in 1927 Bertrand and Dora opened up Beacon Hill, a progressive school where children were allowed to roam the grounds naked and taught how to be good, godless creatures of the earth...
...completely unintentional series of misfortunes resulted in my attendance at many of the University's libraries within the last week-after lunch I'd roam from one to another without ever settling down for more than three and a half minutes, and before I knew it, it would be time for supper...
Still other Boston youngsters, however, will spend the year just hanging around. In the past few weeks there has been an alarming increase in minor crime-robberies, car break-ins-all over South Boston as teen-agers roam the streets with little to do. Says one South Boston social worker: "When kids see their parents chucking rocks at school buses, that begins the breakdown of all kinds of societal rules...
...solid evidence and gradually releasing detainees has repopulated the countryside with alleged I.R.A. diehards. As an example of Rees' tolerance, Ian Paisley angrily charged -and the British army admitted-that Seamus Twomey, chief of staff of the I.R.A. Provisionals, was now off their wanted list, quite free to roam at will over embattled Ulster...
...between the lines, Donleavy's diatribes manage to say more. In passing fancies he sees visions of grace, chivalry and order. Lords sit in their castles while peasants roam the meadow (with a moat between them). Butlers who know their place well serve perfectly prepared drinks to deserving pukka-sahib colonels. At such tenderly sardonic moments, Donleavy seems to reveal himself as an inverted romantic, profoundly sad beneath his disguise because he and the world are no better than they happen...