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...going with a friend of mine, both of us sophomores, nineteen, to dinner with a mutual acquaintance, himself a junior, but 23 years old, married, a veteran. He and his wife and newborn child lived in a small apartment off Central Square, below street level. There was children's wash hanging in the living room, which was moved for the occasion to the kitchen. Some old furniture. School books. Our host served wine from a huge dusty jug, itself an idiosyncratic and mature thing to be doing in those days. We had dinner, some sort of casserole. Talk. More wine...
...concentration would not hold, so he decided to close up his books for the night. He gathered up his soap, towel, toothbrush, and water mug and wandered out of his room down the hall towards the bathroom to wash...
Young said he established communication with the street people by reading them poems. "They were a fairly intelligent bunch of runaways," he says. "We got them to wash and not to cook openly in the building." Anyway, they played by the rules. But one day, Young got a call from the Cambridge police telling him to look out his window. Flames were leaping from the hall. The building was soon a charred shell...
...wouldn't wash. Then the inevitable question: "Where...
...Walter was uncomfortable talking about emotions or philosophies on life. So he got to know one night's worth of a lot of women. When he suggested they get together again he found that they were invariably busy for the next month, or that they had planned to wash their hair on whatever evening he proposed they go to a movie...