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...emotions that people educated at Yale, working on Wall Street and living on Park Avenue usually never discover within themselves, let alone admit in public. They are also the sounds of a man abandoning the last defense of privilege: clever, distancing and self-deluding articulateness. And they are entirely absent from this adaptation of Wolfe's novel...
...absent from that list were two other proposals from the the original working paper, both of which were criticized at the last FAS meeting. Nye said that those two proposals--the creation of a Rhodes-like fellowship for Harvard and the establishment of international relations certificates--did not have strong faculty support at the present time...
With fifth seed Farokh Pandole, sixth seed Adrien Ezra and ninth seed Neal Tew absent, Saturday's victory testifies to the depth and flexibility of this year's team. If all the nine lives of the squash team are healthy in early January, the team national championship in Atlanta is well within reach...
...Largely absent from the movement so far are college students, who formed the nucleus of protest against the Vietnam War. "Students are the natural constituency of protest because they have the time and energy," says Gerald Marwell, professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison. But so far he hasn't seen much concern: "For one thing, there is no draft, so people are not so personally at risk...
...entire play takes place in Barney's Delicatessen, where Rob and Bobby, the two men behind the counter, pass limitless hours churning out sandwiches for a lunch rush that never arrives. They cower under the threatening influence of an ominously absent boss named Barney as Rob discloses piecemeal the play's central concerns. Among these are the presence of a mysterious and impenetrable room "behind the back room" of the deli, which he spends most of his time trying to infiltrate; a violent "occurrence" which resulted in the disappearance of the deli's previous employees; and the undisclosed identity...