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...Even those who do work they would never want to do again -vending pretzels, for example-find a year or two off to be a positive experience," notes Princeton Assistant Dean Richard G. Williams. Adds Yale Dean of Undergraduate Studies Martin Griffin: "Students come back with at least marginally clearer focus and a clear head." Often it is the students themselves who hesitate, concerned about parental opposition, the difficulty of obtaining a decent job, and the tuition increases they will face upon return. Says Williams: "Students spend more time worrying about whether to leave or not than about what they...
...little guy is still highly cautious. Small investors are sitting anxiously on their cash until it becomes clearer that Wall Street's buying panic is more than just a flash. But this has done nothing to stem the three-week-old rally as foreign investors continue to join large U.S. institutions in leaping on the bull...
...call tennis only a game--a part of a larger context--remember that in a sense our activities and our lives are games, as well. And if you call tennis a game because its rules are clearer and its inequities and ambiguities have been removed, realize that it is, at least a very good game of games...
...basic idea becomes somewhat clearer with an effort to visualize it. The theory requires one to imagine an arrangement of geometric surfaces at different levels and a point moving along one surface, until suddenly it plunges to another surface. The plunge of the point marks the convergence of the conditions that give rise to such catastrophes as war, riot, chemical explosion, deodorant failure. In Paulos' application of the theory to humor, the surfaces represent levels of shifting meaning, the point becomes the leading edge of a joke, its plunge signals the punch line...
Herein lies the paradox. The economic prosperity that those defending the bourgeois consensus used as testimony to vindicate capitalistic elements in French society, in turn, gave rise to a clearer delineation between those who owned the means of production and those who did not. The peasantry and the displaced aristocracy that so often aligned with the amorphous bourgeoisie against the proletariat in times of social crisis is vanishing along with the obsolete ideas of the feudal hangover. The increasing rationalism that is intertwined with industrial capitalism allows the members of the maturing proletariat to better realize their own interests...