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...Novels, foreign films, stage plays - isn't all this caviar culture, or at least quiche? Well, it's true that midcult media didn't necessarily penetrate the mass skull. But for the first time, many Americans were sophisticated enough to have developed a cultural inferiority complex. So they went looking elsewhere, and their restlessness encouraged the rise of small industries (back when industries could be small) in publishing, foreign-film distribution and off-Broadway production. Grove Press, Janus Films, Circle in the Square: even today these names have the aura of heroism about them. They located the nexus...
...factors that are obviously out of your control, that you've just got let go, do the best you can, and accept things as they come. This is a very healthy attitude to have towards life, and five days of racing and training has pummeled it firmly in my skull. I think if I can hold that thought, I'll be in great shape back at home...
...that Yalies know that Skull and Bones requires initiates to retrieve a femur bone and lie in a coffin and that their other option is to watch movies with porn stars, I'm guessing there's going to be a different tone to leadership this century...
...Rosenbaum of the New York Observer used night-vision videocameras last month to capture, for the first time, the initiation ceremony of Skull and Bones--Yale's 169-year-old secret society whose members include George W. Bush and his father. Just days later and a few blocks away, I was employing far more extreme tactics to infiltrate an even more cloaked society. Porn n' Chicken, which has been around since 1996 and meets once a month to eat Popeyes and watch porn flicks, became Yale's most infamous organization this year when it began shooting a student-acted adult...
...previous Thursday the group had "tapped" next year's members, the same night Skull and Bones picked their next class. At 11:59 Tuesday night the dozen P n' C initiates, chosen by the "Tri-Colored Council," handed "the man in the orange cap" porn magazines with their name and e-mail address written inside. In return he gave them an "envelope" containing the secret P n' C greeting, which I will now divulge. Chicken 1, quoting the inscription on Man Ray's gravestone, says, "We are unconcerned but not indifferent." Chicken 2 replies, "For five dollars, I will give...