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...miserable, sloppy, hastily done record; and listening to it, I felt as if Dyland had gone out of his way to thumb his nose at everyone who bought his records on faith. He had put his name on a record and asked us to plunk down six dollars expecting maybe "Desolation Row" or "All Along the Watchtower" or at minimum, "Country Pie." But all we got was: "Ba-loo a-moon, you saw me standing a-lone...
...rule of thumb, girls carrying over 15 pounds of books are law students and girls with false eyelashes are interlopers from Lesley College. . . . Don't be snobbish! perfectly nice girls go to Simmons, Bradford Jr. College, etc. . . ." - Unofficial Guide to Graduate Life at Harvard...
...organization's relative impotence in the major East-West confrontations is all but certain to continue, if only because the U.N. was never designed to be a world government, much less one strong enough to rein in the great powers. The wry rule of thumb posed by Philippines Foreign Minister Carlos Romulo years ago still holds: "When there is an issue between two small powers, the issue disappears. When there is an issue between a small power and a big power, the small power disappears. When it's an issue between two superpowers, the U.N. disappears...
Between the time the hammer hits the thumb and the brain signals the bad news, there is an instant when the victim is at peace with the absurdity of the situation. Mrs. Wallop prolongs that moment of truce longer and more cleverly than most of Peter De Vries' previous eleven novels...
Rather to his shocked surprise, he discovers he is not really a nice American boy at all. He has envied his brother, neglected his mother, and despised his father, a small-town grocer who joshed his customers while he kept his thumb on the scale. He has gotten two girls pregnant and abandoned them-far more cruelly than he acknowledged at the time...