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Harvard has a group of students who never carry books, who never go to the Bick for after-class coffee, and who think a bluebook is pretty because the cover is of such a pleasing shade...
...Jefferson; their mother was Lucy Jefferson of Virginia, the President's sister. For Poet-Novelist Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men), this was enough to induce a stream of narrative free verse that runs to book length, with a cast that includes the shade of the murdered George, the murderers, their parents, and Tom Jefferson himself. Author Warren takes the part of commentator and uninvited amateur psychiatrist. Stripped of its turgid pretenses, Brother to Dragons asks two questions: 1) why did Lilburn do it? 2) how could Thomas Jefferson reconcile his own noble ideals with...
...that "hotbed of wrecking operations," the Majlis. The opposition met in Mullah Kashani's garden to protest, and got into a knife fight (one killed, scores hurt). But these stirring events did not arouse southern Iranians to their customary passion. The reason: it was 120° in the shade...
...Gothenburg, Sweden, Kansas Miler Wes Santee ran the fastest 1,500 meters ever run by an American. Time: 3:44.2, just a shade off the world record...
Linda Ferrers, a sensible 18-year-old whose only worry is ending up on the matrimonial remnant counter, has nothing to do with noisy American cutups at first. The man she thinks she loves is Syd, a factory hand who goes in for muscle-building as a hobby. A shade monosyllabic when it comes to small talk. Syd is masterful enough as a movie-balcony Romeo. But before Linda will agree to name the day, she sits down with Syd for a serious talk about their future: "Syd. what about yourself? You got .any ambitions?" Replies Syd: "Well...