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...wants her to want to do, might be a way of climbing out into some sort of fresh air and freedom. But the interruptions and the noise that make dorm life what it is make studying impossible. The constant noise creates a constant non-transcendant now and here. The roar of meals, the music other people use as futile anodynes for the same conditions, the telephones, the feet, the piano in the lower regions, the voices and the plumbing make the space she is sitting in come alive as a huge, swaying, indifferent body...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: I Live at Radcliffe Let Me Out | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

WINNING. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward appear as a husband and wife whose marital trials are enacted against the roar of the auto-racing circuit. The film gives a pretty bumpy ride overall, but it's a pleasant enough vehicle for the Newmans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 6, 1969 | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...forces stormed ashore on Okinawa in the final major battle of World War II, the island has been transformed into the equivalent of the world's largest aircraft carrier. There are 45,000 American servicemen now based on Okinawa. From sprawling Kadena Airbase, huge B-52 jets roar out nearly every day on bombing missions over South Viet Nam. Much of the island has come to resemble a particularly vulgar version of American suburbia, and U.S. spending now accounts for 60% of Okinawa's $644.4 million G.N.P. If the U.S. were to pull out, Okinawa's economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Okinawa: Occupational Problems | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...Roar of a naked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Giuseppe Ungaretti | 5/7/1969 | See Source »

Girls will probably want to return to the campus Sunday morning for the brunch. Tutor in Music Fred Gajewski will play some classical tunes on the piano during the meal to end the social activity with a roar...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: On Spring Weekends and Beer | 5/1/1969 | See Source »

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