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...Sour Grapes...
...Dartmouth Saturday was clear and in the sixties, which was amazing since it had been raining and cool the rest of the week. We picked up a pint of Southern Comfort and a box of whiskey sour mix from Harvard Pro, made about a quart of whiskey sour and sneaked it into the game in a paper bag. We got there a little early and started on the drinks...
...brief two decades, the young British dramatists who railed angrily at the Establishment have been succeeded by caustic young playwrights who acidly mock the welfare state. Underlying that mockery is a sour nagging resentment of the present sorry state of England. Thus it is no unintended irony that The National Health is set in a hospital ward for the dying...
Mostly Ashes. The Republicans are holding their own only in the South, which never did sour on Nixon. Perhaps the freshest political face in the region belongs to Tennessee's Lamar Alexander, 34. Energetic and coolly intelligent, Alexander is given a good chance of becoming Governor by defeat-big three-term Democratic Congress man Ray Blanton. But the Democrats are not without promising candidates of their own - most notably Arkansas' Governor Dale Bumpers, 49, who is expected to win a Senate seat handily after having beaten the redoubtable Senator William Fulbright in the primary...
There seems to be little connection between Anya Savikin, a brilliant, laughing young medical student who lived in Vilno, Poland, in the late thirties, and Anya Meyers, a sour 52-year-old housewife glumly sitting out a marriage in New York in 1973. Each day-to-day progression in three decades has made perfect sense, but at some unnoticed point the time traveler has passed through a looking glass and become unrecognizable to her past selves...