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...finding anyone qualified in a special area is difficult enough without also having to beg them for a commitment. There is no support network of a department full of professors and teaching fellows with similar interests. Finally, if a course or faculty member integral to one's program is absent for some reason, no one is responsible for filling the gap. One has essentially entered a bureacratic vacuum...
...city of more than 1 million, main boulevards are lined with massive public edifices, and cobbled side streets are crammed with quaint but tumble-down houses of stucco and red tile. Although policemen can be seen directing traffic, the uniformed squadrons that patrol some other Soviet-bloc capitals are absent; if the police are out of sight, they can nonetheless appear on the scene when necessary. The coast along the Black Sea is dotted with hotels built to attract Western tourists (and their currency), but the mountains and high plains are sprinkled with villages that appear to have changed little...
Washington may find it hard to imagine that anyone in the country was indifferent to its glory, but the N.F.L. could not have been too surprised that the Super Bowl TV audience share fell from 73% to 69%. "No-shows" since the strike-ticket buyers absent all the same-totaled 789,422. The league will not be comforted to note that the Redskins, layered as they are with 28 free agents, 13 of whom were never drafted by anyone, might be considered an advertisement for just the sort of jerry-built teams the spring United States Football League envisions...
...J.R.R.] Tolkien (whose books he refused to read ...), a 'monologist.' He would listen to whatever anyone had to say-although when he was especially wrapped up in his work ... he could not always absorb the sense of what was said ... During this period he got as hopelessly absent-minded as he ever has been ... When he was doing chores he would be thinking about the work ... Once when laying the table he put down knife, fork and glass for [his character] Sergeant Lamb. He did not do this, however, for Jesus Christ when he was working on King...
...Harvard, fan support is conspicuously absent. Even the brand new Briggs Athletic Center can't lure more than 500 supporters to a game. The cagers aren't a UCLA team, but they aren't winless either, and the hard-fighting Crimson have only been out of a game three times. Coach Frank McLaughlin's team mounted a comeback to nip brother Tom McLaughlin's UMass squad, 45-44, in Amherst earlier this season...