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Pearson likes to give the impression of operating with effortless ease; the reality is based on hard staff work and a 12-to 15-hour day of his own. "Mike is a prag-matist," explains a former aide. "He gets in the middle of a situation and feels his way around before he decides what to do." He relaxes with anything from The Age of Reason Begins to TV's Beverly Hillbillies, but prefers a hockey match or baseball game. "My tastes." he admits, "are not very high...
...like Riesman have implied a relative lack of anxiety in a simple, unchanging social situation. In one way or another, men have longed for the stable uncomplicated primitive life, whether it be on a South Sea island or in a Neo-lithic farming community. The ford myth of an effortless Eden dies hard, stubbornly resisting the evidence of numerous expeditions of this kind. It is too dear a dream to be extinguished by mere facts...
...varsity swimming team chalked up its 15th consecutive victory with an effortless 60 to 38 win over Cornell at the IAB pool Saturday. Although coach Bill Brooks used his top personnel sparingly, the Crimson still took first in 8 to 11 events...
...poundage. Adriana is an opera in which Tebaldi can sing much of the time toward the center of her range, where she is happiest, and in last week's performance her voice had all the remembered caressing skill that can breathe dramatic life into a line with effortless ease. Her role gave her ample opportunity to float out those clear, carrying pianissimos that reach to the last row in the house...
...them in. They are what we look for, as we skim our lynx-eyes over every other page--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, 'son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading: and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be Specific;" etc.? They mean it. The illustrations needn't of course, be singularly relevant...