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...relations. Verity in On the Zattere also feels out of joint. She is a beautiful 38-year-old woman who has accompanied her widowed father on his annual autumn trip to Venice: "Without meaning to, Verity had taken her mother's place." People in Trevor's stories do not awaken from dreams so much as they fall into the deep sleep of illusion. Nancy Simpson, the ex-chorus girl in Lunch in Winter, muses about her youth while she sits in a hotel bar waiting for the right man to come along: "She could see the stairs, where sooner...
...community in the last two years, much of this decrease resulting directly from AIDS education. But as long as people are putting themselves and others at unecessary risk without a clear awareness of that risk, there is a long road ahead. The Crimson does well to awaken "social concern," but that concern is apt to degenerate into hysteria if it is not guided into a rational and constructive preventative channel. The press, with its great educative power, has a duty to direct that concern into AIDS prevention, rather than abandoning it to become AIDS hysteria. Richard B. Mintz '87 Publicity...
...protest will try to "create a stir within the Soviet Union by inundating their government with letters and to awaken student concern to the plight of refuseniks as a human rights issue, not a Jewish one," said Melissa B. Milgram '88, co-chairman of the Hillel committee sponsoring the write-a-thon...
...histories consisting of mingled truth and fiction." There is no arguing with her; Eliot knows as much about theology as the clergymen affronted by her heresy. Even the Rev. Ralph Waldo Emerson is impressed when she informs him that Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions is the first book to "awaken her to deep reflection...
...handling anything he was to touch: "Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap . . . The door to the cabinet is to be opened using a minimum of 15 Kleenexes . . . Call Roy and have him come up to the house and awaken HRH at 10:15 a.m. sharp if HRH is not awake by that time. With eight thicknesses of Kleenex he is to pinch HRH's toes until he awakens, increasing the pressure each time...