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Probably few of the 1,000,000 serious square-dance buffs you refer to have ever danced to such tunes as Skip to My Lou, Turkey in the Straw, Buffalo Gals or Nellie Gray. Singing square-dance calls are now based on current pop tunes, and even include the twist...
...which they keep the dancers on their toes for some 145 beats to the minute, in three "sets" per dance, followed by a short intermission for breath-catching and flirting. The tune can be anything with an air and a beat, better if it is something everybody knows, like Skip to My Lou Gal or Turkey in the Straw, Buffalo Gals or Darling Nellie Gray. The real trick is knowing what the caller means and picking it up fast when he sounds off with: "Bend the line and Dixie chain . . . Strip the gears and do-se-do." Or even...
Some of our readers like to skip around among favorite sections, but a surprising number are still cover-to-cover readers. So, since everybody's time counts these days, we try to limit ourselves to providing one evening's worth of reading a week...
...four years of it in a liberal arts atmosphere. They see colleges becoming mere cram schools for graduate study, and at some prestige campuses, 90% of all B.A.s do go on studying (national rate: 33%). The generalists are also unhappy about speedup advanced-standing schemes in which students skip entire years. (They approve the extra-credit Advanced Placement Program.) At Harvard, Classicist John Finley argues that even ultrabrights need time to grow up. "A student can fly from the West Coast to Harvard in a few hours," says Finley, "but the soul is like a little dog that...
...additional matches, which counted only toward the Big Three championship, Princeton boosted its winning total to 14 to 1. At fourth doubles Doug Walter and Keith Martin provided Harvard's lone victory. After dropping the first set, Walter and Martin came back strong to defeat Harold German and Skip Hartman...