Word: carrels
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Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, sixteen hours a day I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seventeen hours..."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levin...
Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, 16 hours a day, I will finish the readihg by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for 17 hours..."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levins...
...have been an item for 47 years, spanning forays into sexual innuendo (Shakespeare's Bawdy), A Dictionary of Cliches, and Partridge's most famous work, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Until an operation several years ago left him quite frail, Partridge spent his days in carrel K-1 of the British Museum Library, reading everything from pulp novels to plays (consuming "about 80% of all comedies written in English between 1530 and 1970" for his latest work). In the tradition of Samuel Johnson, Partridge works alone, disdaining group effort, computer printouts, even note cards. Instead...
Senior Bill Kapler and sophomore Brien O'Neill have both helped Manakas pace leading the team in rebounds while O'Neill's ball-hawking defense and 9.0 points per game average have proven to be a pleasant surprise for Carrel...
...quite spent her life in a carrel. She has been married for 21 years to a Social Security field investigator and has two teen-age daughters...