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Meanwhile, the teacher, ever desperate to exhibit vital signs, forages for inspirational material. How to convey that this stuff is essential? How to get across that what is not practically useful is most useful? They are salmon in the springtime, and Professor Backwards has one small porous net. To catch even one or two. Is that worth a life, Mr. Chips...
However, maintaining journalistic objectivity did not allow me to convey my feelings. As I am now approaching graduation and still have strong feelings on the subject, I wanted to outline the approach I think student activists should take to make progress on this front...
...Mailer's Jesus sounds a tad like Ernest Hemingway here, so be it. The flat sentences effectively convey the step-by-step pleasure of learning a trade. The real Jesus may well have had such feelings. Far less successful are the many passages in which Mailer's Jesus sounds quite a bit like Norman Mailer...
According to Moltke, the protesters used leaflets which eventually made their way throughout Europe to convey their message...
...sleep. There she was, lying in bed, soaking in her own sweat, awakened "at two-hour intervals every single night by a self-generated tropical typhoon." She knew the term hot flash but hadn't expected to encounter one this side of 50. What conventional wisdom had neglected to convey to Shandler is that long before menopause occurs and menstrual cycles cease, women in their 30s and 40s can be subject to distressing symptoms. Like adolescence in reverse, the transition out of fertility, called perimenopause, is a time of wild hormone swings. And they can trigger a long list...