Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to Belfast from Dublin. He propped his elbows on the table separating us, and explained the situation in Belfast. He grew up in Belfast on the Upper Falls road (any Ulsterman knows that means Tommy is Catholic). And he lifted his right hand and stuck out his index finger to speak of one side, then raised the left and slowly released its index-finger while speaking of the other side. Then he hit the tips of his fingers together hard, so tremors went right down his arms and shook the table. He never said Catholic or Protestant, Nationalist...
...whose credits include ballads for Frank Sinatra, The Carpenters and Jose Feliciano, as well as the theme for Sesame Street. At ten, Raposo already showed the facility and ingenuity that are essential for a commercial composer. A piano student, he invented a two-handed speed method for orchestration. Each finger represents a symphonic choir. Notes played by the pinky and fourth fingers of the right hand are assigned to violins and flutes, the third and second fingers represent the clarinets and oboes, the thumbs are both French horns. In the left hand, the second and third fingers stand...
...kind of sexism you are likely to experience is not nearly so easy to point a finger at. There probably won't be any real enemy. You may not find yourself up against a lascivious section man, but you may encounter a male tutor who assumes that because you are a woman, you are, ipso facto, more interested in women's studies than in anything else. Or you may have a nice, sympathetic section man who really means well but just doesn't understand that spending the first five minutes of every class discussing football scores with...
Here, it would seem, is one area where it's possible to point a finger, to find a villain. If there are practically no women on the faculty, there must be someone who is making the decisions not to hire them. But talk to President Bok, and he will tell you that it's not his fault; you should talk to Dean Rosovsky. Talk to Dean Rosovsky and he will tell you there's nothing he can do about it; it's the individual departments. But it even goes beyond the individual department level--the root of the problem...
...position with a sterile splint strip, cover it with a nonstick dressing and a mitten bandage, and then let nature take its course. Illingworth notes, for example, that a three-year-old girl whose fingertip was treated surgically following amputation in an accident was left with a permanently deformed finger. But a five-year-old who received the Sheffield nontreatment after a similar injury grew a new fingertip -complete with nail-in just three months. Here...