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Phrog: objectionable person, between a turkey and a toad...
...year later few students remember the Gomes Report and most are only vaguely aware that the Foundation exists. A victim of student apathy and faculty and administration caution, the Foundation functions only as a string of loosely organized and--toad's--relatively inactive committees, a half-time director, and a small office in University Hall. The Foundation has sponsored two public events--a speech by a prominent Black physicist and a meeting of the Presidential appointed panel on Japanese-American internment--and published a new brochure for the Persia-Julian Black Students in Science Organization. The Foundation's 12-member...
...worst, the creature's sting produces mutants: witness the work of David Gilhooly, 38. Gilhooly does pottery frogs; rafts of them, dressed up as Mao Tse Toad, posing as the Gautama Buddha or smothering-deep social commentary, this-beneath piles of super market produce. This kind of sensibility, which surfaces in the weaker patches of Arneson's work as well, is meant to be disarmingly ironical...
...events of world-class exaggeration, the tongue likes to disconnect itself from the past and race off obviously astride any passing enthusiasm, like toad of toad hall. A modest example occured during the trial of Elvis Presley's doctor in memphis a few weeks ago; Elvis was fervently described as a musical genius." genius is one of the choice words of breathlessness; if presley was a musical genius what are we to say to Bethevon ? last week a reviewer in the New York Times wrote that "the fecundity of the beatles is a phenomenon unmatched in the history...
...best place to eat, not fancy, but fun, is Gentrees, a little var and restaurant across from Davenport," she says. "And the best place to drink, though it's a little expensive, is the Greenery, down on Chapel St. And you should make sure you go to Toad's place, a concert hall on York St, where they serve drinks till 2:30 a.m. And then there is..." But wait, you break in, not knowing the end is near, "Why do you know so much about the Fun Spots...