Word: clamming
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HARVARD'S APPROACH to faculty salaries is as different from Texas A&M's as clam chowder and chili. The vicissitudes of the university marketplace, so carefully weighed at the Texas institution, are all but ignored at Harvard, officials say. "Our differentials between salaries in the sciences and humanities are smaller than they are at almost any other university in the country." Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky has boasted. "This has an important impact on the morale of the entire Faculty: we're all engaged in a common intellectual enterprise...
...must play at some point: the role of survivor. People are a source of life in Pastan's poetry--her children, her husband/lover, herself. When someone dies, her sense of creativity utters a gasp apart from mourning; its food has been wrenched away. But Pastan remains clam about the way life seems to decay after the death of a loved one. With the lines: The world is shedding - its thousand skins. she survives a funeral by noticing how mourners see the whole world as dry and falling down like an autumn...
...clam musical note arrives...
...double-teammate of Smerczynski's. Winchester's DONNIE ALLARD, disagrees. "I like the Union Oyster House," the quarterback and right fielder maintains. Why? "Because of the clam chowder--I love clam chowder," he says...
...second highest pleasure of Atlantic City is Susan Sarandon, whose fate, up to now, has been to be the best thing about oddball movies like The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Malle's earlier Pretty Baby. Here she is Sally, a clam-bar waitress who is as determined to escape her past as Lou is to recapture his Loonily, she aspires to be the first female dealer in the casino at Monte Carlo, and her plucky struggle to keep the panic pushed down inside her when her former life reaches out to reclaim her is played with the subtle...