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Costin and Cervilla, whose performance times have shown steady downward currents all season, both reached new high water marks in their specialty races. Costin won the 200-and 100-yd. freestyle events, setting a personal record with her 58.4 second performance...
...blind to his own cultural ethnocentricity. Trilling implies that authenticity is a superior, "more strenuous" moral experience than sincerity: "A very considerable originative power had once been claimed for sincerity, but nothing to match the marvelous the generative force that our modern judgement assigns to authenticity, which implies the downward movement through all the cultural superstructure to some place where all movement ends, and begins." This largely uncritical statement ignores the actuality that all paradigms in their time--even, probably, the paradigm of sincerity make that same implied claim to that still point where movement ends...until the next revolution...
With the pen-holder grip, the racket is held downward, with primarily the thumb and forefinger grasping the handle. The paddle is never reversed to a backhand side; the ball is hit with only one side of the racket...
...dimidiatus and recorded 48 instances of sex transformation. "Probably all females are capable of changing sex," Robertson writes in Science, "and most (possibly all) have testicular elements within perfectly functional ovaries." What prevents wholesale sex transformation by the females in a harem is a chain of authority extending downward from the lone male. A former female (like most other males of this species), he bullies the strongest female, who in turn is overbearing toward the female under her, and so on down the social scale. As long as a wrasse remains under the stress of domination, its body apparently does...
...economic aid, it will be serious." Such bleak forecasts, of course, are nothing new in Saigon. Yet even high government officials, who owe a large share of their remaining credibility to the hope of eventual prosperity in South Viet Nam, seem to realize that they cannot allow the downward economic spiral to continue for long...