Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harder to take was Robert Whitman's black-draped funeral fun house, hung with violently vibrating Mylar mirrors. A screaming oscillator sadistically shivered the viewers' eardrums as it shattered their reflections on the mirrors. Equally diabolical was Boyd Mefferd's mini-discotheque, where strobe lights flashed up through colored plastic panels in the floor with such seeming moderation that many of the younger spectators felt an irresistible urge to sit or lie down in order to get closer to the beams...
...Adler, Government; Deborah A. Batts, Government; Anthony W. Ganz, Social Relations; Jerald R. Gerst, Social Studies; Stephen H. Kaplan, Government; John E. Larouche, Government; Richard J. Lavine, Economics; John D. Reed, History and Literature; Anne H. Rightor, Government; Michael S. Schooler, Social Relations; Ronald Simon, Government; Stephen V. Whitman, Government...
...action further down the ladder, Bo Jones and Clark Kawakami stroked past their Yale opponents in singles. Ted Wheeler and Steve Whitman triumphed in a doubles contest...
...love affair is allowed momentarily to flourish in the marshes of Tarbox, and its individuality is contrasted to the interchangeable lust of the others. This is Piet's love for Foxy Whitman, a lady for whom the author too seems to have had some love, for he has made her a luminous and appealing character. But this affair glows only briefly. And though Piet and Foxy do marry, they do so long after their love has died...
After the Whitman baby is born, Foxy gets pregnant by Piet. In panic, they turn to Freddy Thorne for help in finding an abortionist. There follows a rather absurd turn of plot that seems straight out of 19th century melodrama. All but twirling his mustachios, Freddy agrees-in return for a night alone with Piet's wife Angela, the one woman in the tribe who has never entered the communal bed. Implausibly, Angela consents. One night in a ski lodge, after the Thornes and the Hanemas have had too much to drink, Angela suddenly says, "Well, is this...