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...large public high school, semi-athletic, a go-getter, eager to learn about the cinema. But, during freshman year, he began to notice the audacity, and even stupidity, of certain demands Harvard made on him. When his expose section man asked for a paper comparing Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies, Doug wrote mainly about the covers ("One is red with white type, one is white with red type..."), and the section man nearly flunked him. Soon Doug started to miss hour exams, write papers on the wrong topics, and fill in courses incorrectly on his study...
...years, a quirky federal regulation effectively barred U.S. distillers from marketing a competing light whisky. The rule: their bourbon and rye whisky had to be distilled at no higher than 160 proof and had to mature in new charred casks in order to be considered legally "aged." If old casks were used, the whisky had to bear the label "Stored in used cooperage"-a line not likely to boost sales. By contrast, the light grain whisky used in Scotch is distilled at 190 proof. Scotch is also ripened in used barrels, which impart no charred flavor to the whisky...
...Josephites, an order that works mainly in ghetto areas. Both priests deeply distrust private property because of the greed that it provokes in humanity. Phil, the polemicist, is gregarious and outgoing-a tall, brawny, bear-hugging Burt Lancaster of a man, given to warm laughter amid healthy belts of rye. Dan, the poet, is slighter-a cross between Charles Aznavour and Steve McQueen. In conversation, his eyes often seem to rest on some invisible distant mountain. Yet he, too, exudes wide good humor underlying the melancholy. To the fledgling activist, he recommends "the merciful final words: Enjoy. Enjoy...
Diamond, who had had the misfortune of covering one of the worst Yale teams in over 20 years, was hardly in a hurry. His date wanted another rye and ginger, mine wanted another whiskey sour, and I wanted to stay away from Boston Garden and the ECAC playoff consolation round as long as possible...
When another angry listener accused him of saying "Is-rye-eel" in the Arab manner, Brown quickly responded: "I pronounce it the way my Jewish father-in-law pronounces it." Furthermore, he added, "I can't tell an Arab from a Jew. They are both Semitic peoples. They both have noses as long as mine...