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...clubs, only to spill out a few hours later and leave their drunken mess on the sidewalk. But even these trivialities draw out the old complaints about the encroaching student population.So, forgive me for thinking that Cambridge-Harvard relations aren’t really a problem. Yes, we strut around like we own the place, with our heavy volumes of Plato and Voltaire bursting out our big H-branded bags; we launch ourselves recklessly across the streets to the dismay of cab-drivers; we don’t necessarily “care” about the town itself...
...drunken” snapshots, lit by the dim glow of a red fabric chandelier. A cluster of dangling plastic circles and thin red fabric adorn the ceiling, a red shag rug the floor, and a full-length mirror the far wall. “We like to strut before we go out,” Matsui says. The pair found an eccentric fix for their bare bathroom walls: Japanese porn. Dozens of rectangular cutouts from Bukakae, black and white pencil sketches from pornographic cartoon magazines, adorn the walls. White packing tape holds the impromptu wallpaper in place...
...specialized in "propagandada," are well represented. George Grosz, who served in the German army in the early days of the war, satirizes the false patriotism and misplaced optimism of postwar Germany in his Republican Automatons. Here two faceless capitalists - one with a flag, the other wearing a war medal - strut arrogantly, although their hands and legs are cylindrical stumps. Raoul Hausmann's The Spirit of Our Time is just as cynical about the German bourgeoisie. He has taken a mannequin's head and added to it a traveler's collapsible cup, measuring devices, a typesetting cartridge...
James Mosley was both too poor and too proud to leave. His legs were paralyzed since childhood, but it meant the world to James, 52, to strut his independence: he insisted on living by himself in a small, green cinderblock house in the working-class section of Biloxi, Miss., called Point Cadet. And whenever hurricanes approached the Gulf Coast, James adamantly refused suggestions that, given his wheelchair-bound vulnerability, he should evacuate. Says his brother Robert, "He had a big, brave heart...
Niebuhr's strategy of reaching beyond the confines of Detroit's German community helped swell Bethel's membership sixfold in the years after the war. There was another lure: the pastor's preaching. He was, writes Fox, "the educated Protestant's Billy Sunday," who would "strut, gyrate, jerk, bend and quake." Bethel's growing prestige strengthened Niebuhr's hand when he took on Henry Ford, castigating the legendary automaker and other industrialists. He ended up a thoroughgoing Christian Socialist, evoking the biblical prophets and a bit of Marx as he thundered against the exploitation of labor...