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...floors, to be sure, but just a tempting staircase away. The tour guide breezed by the condom stash, labeled "the goods." Finally, Hack ducked out of a required safe-sex seminar complete with demonstrations on dental dams. In short, he says, life at Yale seems to follow a basic dictum: Anything goes. "Exactly the biblical description of Sodom and Gomorrah," he notes...
...quite know how to react once he passes out of the initial shock and denial phase. He isn't given much of a chance to do any really meaningful soul-searching-but he comes brilliantly into his own in his dance scenes, throwing the "Real men don't dance" dictum gleefully to the winds and proving once again that there's nothing sexier, for straights and gays alike, than a good dancer. Tom Selleck also scores high marks as the smirking, skulking tabloid reporter eager to package Brackett into a juicy "Entertainment Tonight" or "Inside Edition" story...
...make the most of our limited time academically. (There was the incident of the water-filled milk bottles dropped down the entry way, which evoked one of Mr. Perkins' best memos, urbanely testy, but on the whole for-giving. But that was the anomalous prank.) The pre-war dictum of "There C's and a D and keep pit of the papers" was I think in abeyance, and my prevailing memory is of long-night struggles at my roommate's portable typewriter, which was quieter than...
...weeks of May. Although McDonald's chairman Jack Greenberg dismisses stories of franchisee unrest as "a guy with a fax machine and eight guys with lawsuits," the corporation has found relations with local operators increasingly hard to digest. The company that used to closely follow founder Ray Kroc's dictum that McDonald's would only be as successful as the local restaurant owner is now oriented to pleasing the stockholder, often at the expense of the franchisee. McDonald's has pushed hard to increase the number of stores on the theory that the company would collect more royalties based...
Students of my generation were taught that E.M. Forster's Howards End is an important novel because its central dictum, "Only connect," is a prescription for the moral life. It was assumed that making connections was a sign of the mind's worth and purpose. Only connect; things fall apart; these fragments I have shored against my ruins. Perhaps this effort to bridge and yoke was a consequence of the big bad Bomb, and of a world growing up under the persistent threat of disintegration. Perhaps it was simply an invention of the academy in which exam questions insisted...