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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Translated by Antonina W. Bouis; Harper & Row; 289 pages...
BREAKING RANKS by Norman Podhoretz Harper & Row; 375 pages...
...himself, there was no mistaking the original style of the most literate, widely traveled humorist of his time: "Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin and pauper-poor is S.J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
Resolute in his desire to avoid repeating the disappointment will be quarterback Burke St. John, starting his second game in a row--tying a durability record for Harvard quarterbacks this year. Restic said St. John, who strained ligaments in his knee against UMass, was "as healthy as he could possibly be expected to be at this point," but conceded that the senior is "not 100 per cent...
House crew is friendlier than its regimented cousin across the river. In a varsity boat, oarsmen signal they are ready to row by barking, "bow, two, three..." House oarsmen are more akin to the Mouseketeers: "Brad! Kathleen! Liz! Liam...