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...HEADED for the seawall, now totally black and foggy. A dark black shape moved in the darkness against the wall. "Francois?" But it was an old man, perhaps from the next town, on his way home by the shortest route. "Pardonnez-moi, monsieur, avez-vous vu un petit homme bossu qui courait... have you seen a little hunchback running along the wall?" The man stumbled back into the dark, changing his path a little--"Non, non, non..." --and vanished...
...those of us who first grasped for maturity during the decade past, a Dylan concert is a three-hour detour through deja vu. Like images on Plato's cave, Clearasil coeds with Joan Baez hair and men silently hunkered inside thick pea jackets appear and quickly pass- yesterday's graduate students, now headed toward paunch or pregnancy. Dylan concerts draw people who inhabited the fringes of campus teach-ins, rode Mississippi freedom buses and marched down endless University Avenues searching for an end to the draft...
Casey Stengel could hardly be blamed if he suffered from a severe case of déjà vu last week. He saw baseballs popping out of gloves, skittering between legs, dropping to the ground after third strikes. He watched unearned runs prance home as errors appeared on the Scoreboard almost as often as hits. Casey might well have thought that he was reliving those burlesque days in the early '60s when he managed the infant New York Mets to three consecutive seasons in last place. But now Stengel was sitting in the stands. Not one but two teams...
...World inspires a sense of déjà vu, it is no accident. Cousins edited the original Saturday Review for 31 years, then quit in 1971 when the new owners, John Veronis and Nicolas Charney, announced plans to transform SR into four special-interest monthlies. Cousins then founded World, an earnest and rather bland biweekly. After the Charney-Veronis venture collapsed last spring, Cousins bought back the SR name and subscription list. So instead of competing with the new SR, Cousins' World ended up absorbing...
...same committees may no longer be standing on this campus, but that doesn't mean that the militant actions of the Spring of '69 are a thing of the past. If ROTC becomes a serious issue again this Fall, University officials may find themselves suffering from deja vu...