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Editor Robert Phelps has made the most of Colette's sensuous prose. Thirty-one stories in this volume have never before appeared in English, and 29 others have received fresh translations. Devotees of Gigi, Chéri and The Vagabond will encounter some of the author's familiar characters as she first conceived them: ravishing courtesans, indolent young gigolos and harried music-hall artists...
Once a self-professed vagabond. Myra Mayman has rarely stayed in any one job for more than a year. In fact, before coming to Harvard 10 years ago as the first director of the Office for the Arts. Mayman--only seven years out of Bryn Mawr College--had held seven different jobs in almost as many cities. As she explains it: "I had no specific career plan in mind...
...Fuller's play is the "Who the hell was he?" aspect in which Waters' complex character is explored. Waters has tried to scour himself to whiteness through discipline and excellence. He is a martinet who addresses his recruits as "shiftless lazy niggers" and hounds one guitar-strumming vagabond singer, sweetly played by Larry Riley, to his death. "They ought to work you niggers till your legs fall off," he screams at his charges, meaning "snap to and measure up," the one-line basic English catechism of the U.S. regular Army sergeant. Waters does not hate...
...despite the enormous wealth he acquired through sales of his stories, Wodehouse remained a man of simple pleasures. Like one of his most famous characters, the lovable bachelor-vagabond Bertie Wooster, happiness for Wodehouse meant comfortable slippers, a good pipe, and a well-mixed highball...
William and Mary beat Dartmouth, which beat Harvard. But that doesn't hold up to the Crimson's success as a vagabond outfit. Besides, Harvard is undefeated at other homecoming games this year (Brown, 41-7 last week). The prediction; HARVARD 35, WILLIAM AND MARY 10, because, really, Harvard is older...