Word: earings
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David A. Love '89, who is Black, wrote a letter to the Harvard Foundation saying that Philip A. Houck '59 rubbed Love's head after Harvard scored a touchdown and referred to his hair as "ear-to-ear carpet." Love also said Houck told him that his blond-haired son was held in awe by Black playmates at the day care center he attended...
...brother, I love you.' That's a stronger philosophy, and there is nothing wimpy about it." He also believes in pressing the flesh in the schoolyard, and some of that flesh is mighty big. In the hallway between fifth and sixth periods, a young giant with a dazzling, ear-to-ear smile engulfs McKenna in a hug and announces he has just been declared academically eligible to play basketball. McKenna grins and admonishes him to keep up his grades. "You hear me, now," he says, shaking his finger at the youngster, who towers over...
...fire skirmish between the guerrillas and government troops. Maposse said the rebels crept like animals through the bush and consulted a witch doctor before deciding when to attack. Another youth was tortured and abandoned when he refused to kill members of his own family. The rebels chopped off an ear and the fingers of the boy's right hand...
...never better than when describing a road and vehicles in combat on it. He is almost as good at evoking places, whether a sterile office complex, a blind-pig saloon in a ghetto, a shack in a Michigan version of Dogpatch or a patio in a smug suburb. His ear for diverse patois seems impeccable, and so does the inner mechanism that tells him when an unlikely escape can be plausible or when violence must instead turn into calamity. Downriver (Houghton Mifflin; 210 pages; $15.95) offsets those virtues with a plot that, like other recent work of his, relies unsatisfyingly...
Perhaps reality lies somewhere between the rapier thrust and the sympathetic ear. There may be a tendency for women to be more jealous of one another than men are of their colleagues, says Niles Newton, a behavioral scientist at Northwestern Medical School. That stems, she thinks, "from insecurities because they haven't been in the workplace as long as men." Assertiveness and rivalry also make many women feel uncomfortable, "and it becomes much more a problem in the workplace, where they are a natural occurrence," says Anne Frenkel, a social worker with the Chicago Women's Therapy Collective. "Women have...