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...cannot initially progress beyond his scholar's ability to detect analogies. His fears and fantasies begin to wrench him apart the same way ivy destroys a crumbling brick wall. He tries to escape the banality, sex and violence that Malraux called the components of our world. Yet enlightenment and peace of mind escape him as he declares: "My soul had not yet completed its reentry into my body after its long night out, alley-catting God knows where...
...white shirt, braces and pearl gray trousers walks up and down rapidly in a diagonal course. Her head and hands twitch programmatically. Another figure, bent like a discus thrower, balances on one foot and listens raptly to a conch shell. A man dressed like a mechanic, a red wrench protruding from his hip pocket, obsessively chalks mathematical equations in the air. A handsome gray steam engine chugs into view. From the pit a chorus raises a wordless three-note chant...
After having this monkey wrench thrown into the Crimson offensive
Describing the new admissions process, implemented last year, as "a wonderful monkey wrench in the middle of the drive," Lyman said many potential donors questioned why they should give money to Radcliffe. She said many of them believed the Harvard endowment ought to support all students, since the Radcliffe admissions office would no longer exist...
...star of NBC specials (with the possibility of making movies as well). Among the subjects he will tackle, adds the comedian, is TV itself-"anything that rings of the cliché and sham, which is what most of television is." Abandoning his old show will be something of a wrench, says Chevy, but "it's like leaving one love affair for another, and we all must move along...