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...used to work at my office until late at night and kids would come around, throw garbage at the window and say things to annoy me," Mounira Charrad, a Quincy House tutor, said last night. She added that people also tried to pry the windows open several times...
During an interview with TIME last week, President Jimmy Carter was asked why his advisers had not warned him that his human rights policy would annoy the Soviets. Replied Carter with a broad smile: I will have to search the pages of TIME to see if you were materially more prescient than I was six or seven months...
...compensation. Its helter-skelter character, after all, is an expression of one overriding national value: the libertarian ideal. It is the intentional absence of central control that produces the unevenness of the final result. The very elasticity that Americans seem to value most produces the disparities that most annoy them: it is at the root of the social and economic mobility that is the very essence of the American scheme...
Lily can become one of her "real" people very suddenly. At a dinner, when the conversation has begun to annoy her, she will pucker her lips and pull her face down so that it looks long enough to get her into the starting gate at Aqueduct. That will be Ernestine...
...long way. The Hunting Hypothesis is essentially a restaging of one of Ardrey's basic themes: "Man is man, and not a chimpanzee, because for millions upon millions of evolving years we killed for a living." It is a perfectly plausible statement but one that is likely to annoy those who prefer their original sin with religion, and psychologists who hold that aggression is mainly learned, not instinctual. Ardrey carefully avoids the word instinct, preferring the suggestion that as direct descendants of Cro-Magnon hunters, we retain "certain human propensities for the chase...