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...prerevolutionary furniture is carefully preserved, and a 50-year- old refrigerator is stocked with black-market meat bought with dollars sent by relatives in Miami. Although his oven no longer works, he is an expert, like all Cubans, at resolviendo (resolving the problem): he bakes cakes in a pressure cooker...
...being made into a psychodrama," remarks classics professor Gregory Nagy. But according to UHS psychiatrist Dr. Irving M. Allen, grade-anxiety is real. "It's a problem. People... aren't doing as well as they'd like to... You certainly get the impression that Harvard is a pressure cooker." But, Allen warns, victims of the B+ blues "weren't made at Harvard. It long precedes Harvard... [They] come to Harvard full of desire to get A's." Pasula agrees that the B+ blues have deeper psychic origins. "Most people who got [in] here got A's in high school...
...editing. He is a gentleman, and I do mean gentle. He treated me like a queen." Stern, on the other hand, is "a slave driver." To crash-edit his book last summer, Regan spent weeks living in the guesthouse of his Long Island home. "It was pressure-cooker intense, very creative and very interesting. He is an extremely driven man. I needed a permission slip to go to the bathroom. He is a maniac, this...
...wanted out. My brother David, my most trustedconfidante through that whole year, brought meback to reality every time I called him in acrisis. School is a pressure cooker, he told me.Bailing out of Harvard was not going to be myelixir, but it couldn't hurt to go home, eat somehome-cooked apple pie and collect my thoughts, ifthat was what I wanted to do. One day after RobertKiely's English class, I got up to leave, stunnedby his eloquent lecture and, again, frustrated bymy inability to concentrate and utilize thiswealth of intellectual opportunity. I shuffled outwith Charmaine...
...have any answers to the sex thing, but I do have an alternate way of making students in this pressure-cooker of a school less uptight. Take naps...