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Atencio brushed the dust off the toe of a moccasin-sensible footgear, the color of bare earth after rain-and in the doing he seemed to dismiss the impertinence. He continued gently, "If you are sitting in church praying and someone knocks at the door, what happens to you? That is what we are talking about...
...result "suggests a need to change the way we take social histories" in treating patients, Ricker said yesterday, adding that psychiatrists have tended to dismiss as fantasy patients memories of abuse...
Show business accepts innocence only if it can be sentimentalized; Jackson's world of fantasy is easier to dismiss with malicious gossip than understand with sympathy. "On some level, I don't even know whether it's conscious or not, Michael knows that he has to stand off the demands of reality and protect himself," Jane Fonda points out. Jackson spent more than a week with Fonda on the set of On Golden Pond, talking far into the night about "acting, life, everything. Afrinight about "acting, life, everything. Africa. Issues. We talked and talked and talked. His intelligence is instinctual...
...seems curious that many accept the common wisdom that the Cambridge police force is generally racist and that its officers often harass minorities indiscriminately, but dismiss suggestions that the Harvard police could share the same attitudes and prejudices. As a rule, HUPD attracts the same type of person that would join the Cambridge force; generally local Massachusetts residents of working class origins who may be angered by seeing middle and lower income Blacks receiving opportunities that their children never will...
...Merrill Lynch investment firm who has bragged of his "35 years of experience in the market," derides Feldstein, who is on leave from Harvard, for being a professor who spent too much time in the library. Last week, after scared stock sellers sided with the prof, Regan tried to dismiss the shake-out as a "natural correction that temporarily interrupts a bull-market upswing...