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...Nobody wants to admit they're paranoid," David S. Goodman, a third-year student who remembered his first year as the worst of his life, said. "If you don't feign calmness, you go out the door," he added...

Author: By Warren W. Ludwig, | Title: Examinations Begin at the Law School; First-Year Students Study and Sweat | 1/4/1977 | See Source »

Some of the calls were from people who misrepresented their seat locations, or tried to feign ignorance of gate numbers and the like to unload lousy tickets on him. "They assumed I didn't know anything," he says...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Any extra Tickets? | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...this fall. His mustache shorn, his hair slickly marcelled, Billy Dee sits before a dummy piano, miming perfect syncopation to Joplin's ragtime. Suddenly, on cue, he is distracted by the arrival of a lovely onlooker (Black Actress Margaret A very). Their eyes meet. The girl tries to feign disinterest, but she's hooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Black Gable | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...impending contract negotiations are, nonetheless, Harvard's primary labor concern this fall. It's difficult to say whether strikes are a real possibility, but the thought doesn't faze Powers. "It's bad labor relations to overreact to strikes," Powers says, "In fact the worst thing to do is feign toughness and not be tough...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Ed Powers: A Lawyer As Harvard's Labor Boss | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...Larry Feign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, May 19, 1975 | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

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