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...Berkeley that led her to try to help other people. In college she was an expert player of the academic game, a great winner of praise and fellowships. Such accomplishments did not prevent her from feeling, as she once wrote, that each writing assignment was "a blankness, a barrier, a kind of enemy." She bested her enemy often enough to be able to do well as a teacher of writing at Berkeley, U.C.L.A. and Caltech. But she slowly began to transform her English courses into experiments in overcoming fear of writing. By 1975 she was calling herself a writing consultant...
...would like to pretend that the first marriage never happened. Reagan caters to this sensitivity, and that is why there was so little mention of the marriage and the children in his autobiography. In fact, some friends think that the extreme closeness of Reagan and Nancy has created a barrier for all the children...
...into the grueling 24-hr, sports car race, young Thatcher, positioned 30th in a field of 34, suffered what he later called "a momentary lapse of concentration" while negotiating an S bend at 80 m.p.h. His Osella skittered crabwise across the track, bumped to a stop against a safety barrier and refused to start. Thatcher, who made his driving debut just one year ago, was unhurt but thoroughly crushed and teary-eyed. The London press was not sympathetic: STOP SNIVELLING, MARK-YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW, scolded a Daily Express headline. In Britain, one expects a stiff upper...
...marked contrast to its season-opening triumph over hometown rivals MIT and Northeastern on the windswept Charles, the Black and White enjoyed perfect rowing conditions on the Cornell course and broke the five-minute barrier, posting an impressive time...
...will do little to change that view. The literature shows absolutely no attention to psychological realities: that often an adolescent and surely a small child can hardly produce anything like informed consent to an adult it depends on for life and guidance; or that the lifting of the incest barrier would invite the routine exploitation of children by disturbed parents. The sex researchers may get the shocked public reaction they expect, but their arguments are truly too simple-minded to earn it. Critic Benjamin DeMott, professor of English at Amherst, feels that outrage is not the proper response to what...