Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make an incredibly good drunk. His writing is like that, sky high and reeling along, everything just enough out of focus so that you get the feeling he's tilted the whole world a few degrees his way and he's letting you in on what he sees. What you see and what you don't is up to your imagination. Reed has a lot to say about what he thinks this country has been up to in the past 200 years. but he isn't doing any preaching. He has this way of looking at things that lets...
...will be interesting to see what happens in the fall of 1970, The cross country and soccer teams will again be loaded with talent. They will have little to gain and much to lose. The football team, and coach Yovicsin, will have an opportunity to produce and show that 1969 was just one of those years...
...overlook" in the garden there is a stand with a map of the battle area. Pushing a button starts a voice that explains that you cannot see most of the sites because they are in back of you. It also gives you the name of every commander at the battle and tells you where they all went. You are told far too much to understand anything, except the vague idea that farmers were shooting in the fields. (It is difficult to get a sense of the farmers. After all, they were revolutionaries-and the bourgeoisie...
Meanwhile, Mr. Stack fed me statistics. 7600 members. Lunch served to 700 to 800 daily. Liquor inventory of $40,000, including 75 varieties of wine. 1000 pop-overs baked each day. 250 squash-players per month. I asked if I could see the squash courts. Mr. Stack bent down and replied in a quiet voice that it wouldn't be possible for me to go upstairs because the men would be in their... um... you know, birthday suits...
Birthday suits in their closets along with their black suits and brown suits and navy blue suits? Perhaps, I could see where the popovers were made instead...