Word: ve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your whitewash of this youth culture may well precipitate the flood that will inundate us all. They plan to take over the helm, and apparently you've welcomed them aboard-but how long could even TIME stay afloat if manned by people who don't have enough sense to come in out of the rain...
...Love Machine went through her chat with Carson, the subject never came up. Just as she was to leave, her host asked innocently: "What do you think of Truman?" "Truman . . . Truman," she considered gravely. "I think history will prove he was one of the best Presidents we've...
...statuesque blonde from Elberon, N.J., who was named Miss Bikini, U.S.A., this summer. A ringer? Not at all, said an admissions official, pointing out that the lovely Tigress was in the top 1% of her high school class and won several public speaking contests. Purred June: "I've met so many boys today, they're all just one big blur...
There-this essay (from the French, essai, to try, test) has officially degenerated into a morass of egocentric affectations and Harvardian putdowns. It's the thing you've got to watch out for here. For I haven't told you about how Harvard tears you apart, because that is the part that is difficult to tell. (See John Updike's short story "The Christian Roommates" in his collection The Music School or, on a once-removed level read John Berth's The End of the Road. ) Despite, or maybe because of, our spurious elitism, we are an insecure bunch. Harvard...
...there again. Then after Easter recess, a lot more begin to realize that Cambridge is their real milieu. A few, perhaps, try a final summer at home, but it rarely works. They too flee back to Cambridge in panic. And so, one day, you suddenly hear yourself saying. "I've got to get home." And home means good old Harvard College. Cambridge, Massachusetts. And that...