Word: vassar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Magruder was a popular, even irresistible figure: outgoing, unpretentious, effervescent. A member of one of Maryland's oldest families, he grew up on Staten Island in New York City. As a teenager, he became a star tennis player. He graduated from Williams College with honors and married a Vassar beauty, Gail Nicholas, who shared his conservative political views. While working in a management-consultant firm in Chicago, he earned a master's degree in business administration...
...arrangement by Chuck Cochran turn from maudlin into lively. The Watsons are equally successful with Tom Paxton's "Bottle of Wine." Merle's instrumental arrangement "Bonaparte's Retreat" shows off not only the precision of his and his father's guitar playing, but also the unusually expressive fiddling of Vassar Clements. Clements demonstrates that a fiddle can make you feel things besides the urge to stamp your foot, and, in other songs, his surprising changes in rhythm and tone are even more pleasing than the theatrics of most lightning-fast fiddlers...
SANDERS THEATER. Joint concert of the Harvard Krokodiloes, Yale Whiffenpoofs, and Vassar Night Owls. Tickets: $2 (students: $1). April...
Digression. There are two interesting bars in Poughkeepsie, Frivolous Sal's and Squire's East, located, interestingly enough, within a stone's throw of Vassar. But for the same reason Cliffies don't frequent Charlie's Place, you rarely find Vassar girls in Sal's. You find guys in Union College windbreakers, computer programmers, community college girls, and, being that it's New York, high school seniors. It's a bar whose juke box is evenly split between Chicago and Grand Funk. (Once, one Friday night, after I learned that the way to sidestep the dollar bottled beers...
...produce. Many, calling methaqualone "heroin for lovers," also believe that it is an aphrodisiac. They are mistaken. As a "downer," or depressant, the drug may release the user from his normal sexual restraints. But it is also likely to make a male incapable of normal sexual performance. As one Vassar man puts it, "All your inhibitions are definitely broken down-like everything else in your body...