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...pressure of his linguistic vitality. Gabriel himself, with his constantly thwarted desire for transcendence and his unstoppable monologues on everything from sex to Homeric mythology, is a memorable caricature: beside him, the Beat heroes of '50s fiction look not merely anemic but ignorant. Gabriel, simply, is romanticism cubed: "Scrape your brain bare, like a battery electrode, expose your nerves like a bush of copper. Get ready to sing or die. Or maybe both! And all this out here, these roofs and smokestacks, will turn into light-and you'll see right through them-because they...
...deferential. The head of Government is nothing but a politician, and you can be rough and relentless with him. We combine the two in one person-the President-and suffer all the psychological stresses usual when you adopt two contradictory attitudes." Smith prefers the British system: "You bow and scrape to the monarch, but you raise hell with the Prime Minister...
Almost 6000 fans poured into Penn's 60,000-seat stadium to watch the Quakers scrape by Lafayette 31-20 in the first game of the first intercollegiate football doubleheader...
...Warning System. Badly burned, the exchange has become more careful. The SEC allows a brokerage firm to have up to $20 in liabilities for every $1 of capital, but the exchange recently has begun to demand that its members quickly scrape up more capital whenever liabilities rise to more than $12 for every $1 of capital. Under this "early-warning system," the Big Board has ordered changes in 139 firms, or more than one-third of the 375 members that carry public accounts. Now 93 of those companies have brought their capital accounts into sound order; another five have transferred...
...going anywhere, however, unless the club manages to scrape up some collateral in the near future. Unfunded by the University, a-mixer next Friday night in Mem Hall is the team's only source of revenue...