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...fright is also confined in varying degrees to specific departments, mainly among the sciences. Some of the more independent segments of Yale, such as the law and medical schools, are not even worried...
Seams & Dreams. For one thing, he really hated concert tours: trains and boats almost invariably made him sick. Besides suffering from stage fright, he had a good deal of trouble with his clothes: buttons popped, belts burst, seams split. And for years he was tortured by a recurrent nightmare-that the orchestra would begin while he was still dressing for the concert. In the dream, he never got to the piano in time...
Peace Without Practice. Finally, after more than 50 years, Harold Bauer did give it all up. "Peace," he wrote, "is over my soul... I am never going to practice the piano any more . . . Gone [are] the qualms of stage fright . . . the tedium of travel . . the hideous fatigue of submitting to journalistic interviews . . . the resentment against the critics...
...black market and secret deals with the Axis, is snared by an avaricious blonde whose mind is as corrupt as his, and finds in the world's agony the perfect opportunity to snatch more pleasures. At war's end, Grant, aged and decayed, passes out with fright at the unexpected appearance of an old friend whom he had cheated years back. Grant's hallucinatory harangues, much like the buzzing of a neurotic bumblebee, are recorded by Miss Stead in unsparing detail. To expect a reader to wade through several score pages of them...
Early in October 1944, the British bombed the Dutch island of Walcheren (pop. 60,000), which is largely below sea level. When the bombs fell, "the dikes bowed their straight backs like animals rearing in fright . . . Suddenly the water began to move across Walcheren. It billowed in through the front door of Flushing and the side door of Westkapelle; through the back door of Veere it ran out . . . Now the air photos grew daily more satisfactory. Dozens of red circles were marked in the gray. Each circle stood for a group of enemy pillboxes. On each new photograph a dozen...