Brown University Womens College - Brun Mael Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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. 4,-... , ' ht too except that my ride leaves at four, after the Bridge all afternoon. And all mg , , ' hat will happen, because George always driver's last exam. No tellmg, though, w likes to take All his friends, and George's VW is not a Volkswagen bus. I know he is taking the entire house this time, because he called last night and said, You kis do you? You can rent skis up there? Which means at don't Want to take your s , . ' ' ' ks for trouble. least six friends all with skis. I keep telling him he just as time. Being an import we all think of from time to Face it: going away is something ' mmer. Going to Boston or New York or for a change, or going home for the su Newport--just for the day. Going away for the last time. Or going away like Huck Finn. After all, it does good, and itis easy, If you have a little money, there are all those charter flights to Europe, which don't cost much unless you donit have much anyway. You know: first class with red-coated waiter, thousands of stewardesses, and a sommelier with a friendly smile on his rosy face. All for only . . . Chicago is fogged in. You don't even take off. CYes, the TWA building is nice, but Mother is tearing her hair at some other airportj And then there is the fast, friendly, cour- ' hich also goes to Westerly, Kings- d b e all clean train to New York, w teous, an a ov ton, Old Saybrook, New London, Norwalk, Bridgeport, et alliis. Rolling south- ward with a bag of dirty laundry and a carload of round-faced Yalies with maroon ' of not going ties, I start thinking of flying again, of staying put when I get there, or at all. I ..:..,,-,. . in-A Y , ,...., ,fl-. ,--1 .M S Z. 'fl . ,y rn.. -'f B --.--f'.-was 4 - ,dawn H - ,., , . W , . T ,Q ,-,. 1, ,rs V9 L ..,,f'T-,if 33 f51,sfe,a . - . ..4-. fu ,, - 4, , ,,- x, f ' A -'-. .1 ,grid ni , ,fy R 5-5' xv -f '- .1 f' - - . M7 .- . H :gg , LH - 3 'L V ,5- ' , A - :C -,,,,,,,.v.,,,.f,f ,f,,rff--jr, , ,gag ,ith 1 Y: If-V, -in -1 '- '4 4 'cf'-.., ' .IQ-',.1f 'Fl isis 'xy Q J1:'f . 'T ffl' 3 ' V. ' ' if jg-,j ilu, 1 A N .f 'W ,nf I, ' r .-gyiry, Q' -,A , g - ,,r.,, . ' 'f 1, ,,,'-2, fig, , 1 'A f.. wfxci ' ff N . 1- ' ' . f ,.. wi rwf' :'. 'f- ' X- --.. .-rlu ' gg Lia Lg- 1 , '-it y-Sgr 'S -, 'f. 'Ln ,,'T. Jj .V ,:,. ,' r I. iff AMG, 'YT' as i ,, v-,: Q .ffunlf-..Lf 'T ' ,:.,-, , :. , ij' '-',- ff' 57 gf -. 44 4' .K Q L fx - ,'i,tvi2 J ff ' ., ' ' ' if ' 'N ' . , ,. E ,, ,,, L .. . ,f' e -12.2. V ,-. ,, 4, - -' 971, g, wt v. ,, .5 -- ', ,, . - ' 'cwv ,JU A s '.f -. ,, N p-L .ga Q , .. , . 9-:. . ,gblrai-,. 7.x 4.552-R...-, ' - .r x '- sv. Ny, ..., .,, , '-.LN yr,-K up I -vw' K 4- 1 ,,--1 V -m ., 4,- ,, , ,1- - ir' . ,w ' 'V V Y 'f1 N ' .f-'Cf-A 1, X .-. 'u'Jj- N - ' ' X r -'Q x A f W4 I ' I '-,-, -egg N: 'I f- 4 ,',-5 .--W-. ,V -K H- . . , , X . e N...' 41' ...Uv .mf ,. ' VA ,ii 1 N,. 4 N.-fin-gf-... - .' f jatfq. . . Q . I . 1, nt N , 'QQ Qt x., X wi ff, ff I 'np ' 1 4 Q, '.,f, .f. lik' 'CN V V . Q, f - --we. , , 'f? Q. ' , ., H, .1 , ' . -up lxxfa ,, 3 1Q. --L I 5 I . 7 rx-755 r I - fe . , -jst yt, .-fb f 4' Q . 4-f-A lQ,a,v.A X L . ,J , ff 122325 ,M 7- .,,. South 1 Jullctic the Uni a1fCad5 80041 v going 1 le. bag Papers 80 aw? first ph, then th and P0 indenn

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Somebody else went up to the second floor to kick the elevator back down to the basement, so I got a ride all the way, with five stops. Now it is exam time, and there is the siren call of bridge. This is such a hand CWhen will you ever get cards like this again? One void and a singleton ace, and your partner opened one no trumpb that it can't be passed up. And having made the slam, a seven hundred rubber seems possible on One More Hand. This should not suggest that we aren't serious people. Contrary to rumor, we spend little time in tray-sliding and other forms of Whimsy. There isn't that much snow. As for the seasonal cult of the Road Runner car- toon, that is as constructive as the yearly flooding of the Nile, or the sacrificial lamb. This is the time of the Road Runner, that fourth horseman and sign of Armageddon. A time for sober reflection and, hopefully, total recall. Thinking upon the Road Runner, I got four postcards today at new rates. Sharpened my pencils, cleaned off my desk, told George I would see him sometime in the indefinite future, and wrote to everyone to tell them not to expect mail from me. Then I got a new jar of instant coffee. You know you canft accomplish anything until you're- ready. Napoleon went off to Moscow without making any arrangements for a winter campaign, and by that sad example I mean to make it clear that you aren't in business this time of year without your post- cards and whatnot. So much for the groundwork. As for the studying itself, by midnight I will have read . . . George on the phone, out of his mind in the Hay . . . by this time tomorrow, I will have read War and Peace. When duty whispers low, somebody always needs a fourth or a cup of coffee. 9 ' 'A S. gf 3 ---.

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