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...Allen's nasal delivery. When Waukegan planted a tree in Benny's honor, Allen asked, "How do you expect it to live when the sap is in Hollywood?" Once when Benny was on the losing end of an exchange, he told Al len, "You wouldn't dare say that if my writers were here...
Butler uses Harvard's status as an educational institution as an excuse for a wage-squeezing few other employers of 6000 workers would dare voice. All of Harvard's trappings of prestige and learning make very little difference to its workers, and cannot be a substitute for wages or, just as important, respect. When workers know their employers view them as an adjunct and not what they really are--a part of the University just as essential as professors or students--it makes it very difficult to work here happily...
...lone pigskin potentate--Joe Paterno--is a walking, talking epidemic. When the Temples and the Boston Colleges fail to translate enthusiasm into bowl bids, Paterno's Nittany Lions from Penn State (13 miles from the gas station) stalk inexorably the big-time football jungle that lesser Eastern mortals never dare to enter. Six times in seven years they've played in bowls, and they've dumped Texas (Cotton, 1972), thrashed LSU (Orange, 1974) and given Oklahoma (Sugar, 1973) the Sooners' biggest scare in years...
...faint, seasick...The woman was a bright mulatto, with a pleasant face. She was magnificently gotten up in silks and satins. She seemed delighted with it all; sometimes ogling the bidders, sometimes looking quite coy and modest; but her mouth never relaxed from its expanded grin of excitement. I dare say the poor thing knew who would buy her. My very soul sickened. It was too dreadful. I tried to reason. 'You know how women sell themselves and are sold in marriage, from queens downwards, eh? You know what the Bible says about slavery, and marriage. Poor women, poor slaves...
...thing about relationships with men. Radcliffe women tend to mask their abilities in a variety of ways. Sometimes it come out in a kind of militant explosion. But mostly the girls don't talk in class. Mostly, the guys talk. There is still this business about 'I don't dare show these guys either how dumb they are or how smart I am' because of the 'fragile male...