New Utrecht High School - Comet Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Reality She gazed ouT over The cool, green campus oT The high school and noTiced a sparrow hurriedly TluTTering back To iTs nesT. The sun played havoc wiTh man's world in Tiery red and gold Tones which shone wiTh an awesome noon brilliance. The dark shadows oT The Trees wiTh Their curling branches were like imprinTed ebony Tingers hungrily reaching ouT To cover eTerniTy wiTh Their blackness. lvliss Dawsons high-piTched rasping voice broughT Jody back To her never- escaping world oT realiTy. The class was excused and The walls echoed wiTh ex- clamaTions oT ioy and were Tollowed by a scramble and an exodus oT exciTed, push! ing people. She gaThered up her books, shuTTled Trom her seaT, smiled aT Miss Dawson, and walked slowly Through The door. Jody Took The bus as usual To The lasT sTop and Then goT oTT. Looking aT The row oT Tall, ugly, shapeless, slaTe-gray TenemenT houses-The ones ThaT haunTed her dreams, beckoning To her, sTiTling her, cuTTing oTT The Tresh air-.she sTood There. waTching The youngsTers playing in The narrow sTreeT. Their cloThes were worn, TaTTered, and paTched, yeT They were happy because They were young and oblivious To poverTy. She ascended The Three TlighTs oT sTairs leading To her shabby aparTmenT, un- locked The door and puT her books on The Table. She Tlung herselT on The bed- Too laTe she remembered The broken spring and she TelT a sharp, sTinging pain in The small oT her back. She TelT old and Tired. All aT once she sTarTed To cry, noT gushing sobs, buf a guieT, sTeady, silenT cry, The cry oT one who is cresTTallen and deiecTed. CAROL POLLACK ' , I if ff fa as: lilly fgzf T sa as e wi - ,g l y. if2?T'i- V455 F Nl if 7 Fu? T NX ls fe-fi . e li 'Q l KQQ , 51555. - ' ri 4 V-,M 'NN' as fl s ,, lil' - 4 is ' i T X ' f NX f-f ' 'Q Y K X f f X - J3aQ'uA'7?e4.zFf.3c K EighTecfn

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Dementia Today, The world is dimension conscious. The concepTion OT lengTh, breadTh, and deFTh is commonplace, Cinemascope, microscope, Telescope, and even educa- T'On5l'5COl95' make use oT The dimension TacTors. '3uT iT does noT sTop here, ln The Three dimensional brick building on SixTeenTh AXGVTT-19 belfween SevenTy-ninTh and EighTieTh STreeTs, beTTer known as New UTrechT High School, There are Tour dimensions: The Treshman, The sophomore, The junior, and -,..: 'Tc :cV1lQr, The Treshman, or TirsT dimension, has no breadTh and no depTh. In The scheme C5 fnihgs, he is a mere line going Trom class To class. l-le blends well wiTh The rec- 'i3fneariTx oT his surroundings, The sophomore is Two dimensional. l-le has lengTh and breadTh, and has grad- s ea'neo, accumulaTed, and sTored enough knowledge To be recognizable. BuT Q , fneoreTica ly TlaTg ideally, a Square. i' 's n 'he iunior year ThaT The sTudenT begins To broaden himselT, becoming an a:'xe e x. selT-conTained, possessing lengTh, widTh, and breadTh. T-le has Tinally merges :rom The background. T'e roufrh year adds The TourTh dimension To The senior. l-le now has lengTh, 3 decsn, and-ego. IT is This TourTh addiTion which seTs him aparT Trom his -oe T' makes him Teel ouT oT This world. l-le has aT lasT Tound The -1 ' :-ro geT ouT oT school. T e :' c:nTrary To acceplred opinion, which says ThaT The lasT school Term - iffg ard guieT one, becomes hyperkineTic and TreneTic. l-le sTudies Tor The ejems efamz: ne engages in school poliTicsg he cuTs classes. l-le works Tor a publi- ifg -55 hig picTure Taken, he cuTs classes. l-le Tiles college applicaTionsg he :QV cap and gown: he cuTs classes. I-le rooTs aT all The games, he voTes .95-Qfgegg he goes To The dean.-l-le sTudiesg he sTudiesq he doesn'T cuT i-9 ig Tfra ly awarded his sheepskin. His soiourn in The TourTh dimension is over, ,Q c.i-+5 A - me-.5 line in The COMET, a line in his Treshman colle e class, or a J, , TC G Q ,P -The ranks oT job hunTers. l-le is once again TirsT dimensional. LEONARD DAUBER SevenTeen

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Leffer From A Venusian The following lvifrr ll'tlS found in the COMET'S lnuil. Luzitfz ll note almclled ask- ing ns to print lil' in our rrnzgazzirzir. Bt'1lif'l'I-ll-g' if rl. lrofzx, we wvrv going Lo throw if IIICII-Y. ewvelzzl that one of flu' staff nolived Ilml ll small mirror was umlccouintably 7711.-'siflg from the 141111 on I4'f11iCl1 if was lIt'!'IlSf0fl1Pd lo flung. Since the office is alzvays loclrvd. theft was out of 1118 question. and owing to the way a mirror was 77IUI1fli0I1t'd in flu' If-tier. uv dm'1'uleuI it Irvs! fu print if and let you draw your own vorzclzzsliolzs. lm Trom Venus. 'l'haT's righT, I'm a Venusian. I realize ThaT This TacT will be enTirely unbelievable To you, because, while your science-TicTion wriTers have pre- pared you Tor an invasion Trom Mars, They have enTirely ignored The TacT ThaT life could exisT on Venus, NeverTheless, I am really, honesTly a Venusian. BuT perhaps l'd beTTer explain, and Try To answer The quesTions ThaT mighT come up. l5irsT, how did I geT here? ThaT's very simple. I decided To run away Trom home! I never inTended To go so Tar as To visiT EarThg I iusT inTended To go To one oT Venusl ouTlying saTeIIi+es. LeT me cIariTy ThaT, because as many of sou know, Venus has no moons. BUT because oT The pIaneT's over-crowded condi- on, many Tiny man-made safellires have been builT. Because oT Their minuTe size and because oT anoTher TacT which I will explain laTer, your asTronomers have never see' 'nem and so are ToTaIly ignoranT oT Their exisTence. BuT Im digressing. LeT's reverT To how I arrived here. ATTer my decision had been made, I climbed inTo my rocIceT converTibIe, and seT The dial Tor whaT I -'laughs was SaTelIiTe Epsilon. WheTher Through my error, or a TaulT in The machinery o? The rocIceT, The nexT Thing I Icnew was ThaT I had landed on EarTh. You mighT also ask: If an ordinary everyday roclceT could geT To EarTh, why have-nT our scienTisTs made The voyage? Well, They have. They've visiTed EarTh mary Times, buT iT is impossible Tor you To see Them. Cn accounT OT The TacT ThaT Earmmen, wiTh Tew excepTions, are noT menTally advanced enough To accepT our ewirence, your brain cannoT regisTer The image we send Through your eyes, and so To you we appear as noThing buT moderaTely Thick vapor, which is hardly noTice- ac e. IT you were able To see us, we would appear To be much The same as EarTh- men. For This reason your asTronomers are noT able To discover any IiTe on Venus, or even To noTe The small saTeIIiTes. They say iT's because oT The dense cloud cover- ing cur planeT. WhaT has never occurred To Them is ThaT The cloud They see is acTualIy The Venusian civilizaTion. You mighT asln why, since Venus is so Superior scienTiTically, our air Torce hasn'T invaded and Talren over EarTh, as your science-TicTion wriTers are so sure The Mar- Tians will do. lYou needn'T worry abouT MarTians, by The way. They are less civi- lized and scienTiTicalIy advanced Than you, and could never span The disTance To EarTh.l We Venusians have no inTenTion or desire To Talce over anyfhing. One oT NineTeen