Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elis (3-0 in the Ivies) boast four multi-talented swimmers in Michelle Robertson (butterfly sprints), Nancy Cahill (breastroke sprints), Carolyn Hyde (distance freestyles) and Molly Smith (backstroke...
Reeves also invited selected delegates and other conventioneers to keep diaries, and the material selected from these forms the thread of continuity through what is basically a stream of anecdotes. Thus the diarists are stuck with stupid appellatives--Clare Smith, a 17 year old high school student from Ohio, becomes The Youngest Delegate; Fritz Efaw, an ex-MIT student now living abroad, becomes The Draft Dodger Delegate; Dick Celeste, Ohio's lieutenant-governor on the way up, becomes The Young Pol. And friends, one may be assured that after over 200 pages and the deaths of a lot of trees...
...book is a tangle of anecdotes. Some are funny, some are interesting, but there's not nearly enough material here for even a magazine feature, let alone a full book. Reeves follows Clare Smith on her search for Hunter Thompson and recounts her ambiguous romantic entanglement with a young aide. But the insights a 17-year-old Ohioan brings to a national political convention are, well, the insights of a 17-year-old Ohioan. We follow her as she visits the Statue of Liberty; we follow her as she visits bars for the first time. Most banal...
...could see why they were the lesser-known wines of Burgundy--implying that maybe the reason nobody had talked to Hitler's sister was that she had nothing to say. But the final word on this book was probably inadvertently delivered by Reeves himself, when he tells of Clare Smith's attempt to get Hunter Thompson's autograph. After many abortive attempts, she finally gets it, and asks Thompson why he isn't writing Fear and Loathing, 1976. "Because of shit like this," Dr. Thompson screams, adding, "Now get out of here!" Shit like this does seem a pretty poor...
Sophomore tutor Constance B. Smith said last night she hopes Verba will bring changes to the tutorial program since she considers the present paper review in sophomore tutorial "a rather insulting policy; if they have enough confidence to hire us they should trust our grading...