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...trapped in a boondoggle-a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for a book on women writers-Moers betrayed her better judgment. With forced bravado, she tucks three centuries of French, English and American authors between the covers of her book, as if she were playing hostess to a slumber party of pen pals...
Rise like lions after slumber...
...book of this kind, based primarily on the legal records, can a certiorari an insomniac into deep slumber. David Tinnin, a TIME correspondent who spent five years recycling the TWA-Hughes papers, manages a sensible balance between fact and speculation. Tracking the billionaire from crisis to crisis, hideaway to hideaway, Tinnin presents a convincing picture of a driven man who , with all the money in the world, subsists on cookies and suspicion in a sterilized cell...
...Harvard fencing team entertained Brandeis last night at the IAB, but the evening was more like an all-night slumber party than a fencing contest. And like the nocturnal revels of grammar school teenyboppers, the thing lasted an awful long time (three-and-a-half hours) and accomplished very little...
...with the beginning of the North Vietnamese offensive on March 30 and Nixon's frantic attempts to halt the rapid erosion of South Vietnamese strength, students around the country were jolted out of their slumber. As Nixon first escalated the bombing of the North and then mined Northern ports, students answered his affront to the people of the world by calling student strikes, engaging in mass acts of civil disobedience and lobbying their representatives in Washington. A few of the more militant violently assaulted buildings they claimed were linked to the military effort. University officials joined students in protesting...