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...begins with her eyesight, which is myopic at best. She finds, to her horror, that the Nautilus machines are brown. An outrage even if it weren't true, which it isn't! The machines are clearly black, though I'm sure she would never deign to get close enough to them either to use them or to study their pigmentation. She finds newspapers near the stairmasters and stationary bikes, and as if that weren't the last straw, she finds no treadmills to set trash down next to. Although, as she says (and I believe her) health clubs across...
Jain jokingly calls this part of their lives "doing the race thing." The "Wacky phase" they went through together dictated much of what they felt able to do with their lives at the time: "what you read [Ellison, not Thoreau], who you would deign to go out with [Blacks, definitely not whites], what your interests were in politics--all with very little emphasis on action...
There is no doubt that such a project would require significant organization and planning. Perhaps it is beneath the Undergraduate Council's dignity to deign to deal with such issues as selling burgers and frozen yogurt...
...embarrassing enough that a Harvard professor should deign to appear on the same stage with a woman who has made her fortune by persuading people to reveal to national television shameful stories that in a more tasteful age they would have gladly paid copious blackmail to suppress...
Urgent matters are not the only reasonadministrators deign to meet students.Administrators say there are no limits todiscussion topics...