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...walked down a street, especially in a big city and especially during the summertime, knows the difference between appreciation and abuse. Occasionally (usually in our dreams) we walk past men who smile fondly at us. Most of the time we are subjected to a crossfire which makes running the gauntlet look like a stroll. Comments like "Mmmmmm, nice," and "Hi there, honey" from total strangers may seem harmless; but because of them a women who ventures out in public is apt to return home feeling more-totalled than Total...
...great game fish face a hazardous course that only the fittest survive. Along the way they are likely to encounter far more than the simple lures of sportsmen who gladly pay up to $3,000 a week for riverbank angling rights. The fish must also run an illicit gauntlet of nets, gaffs, snares, spears, dynamite, electric shocks, even poison, believed to be cy-mag, a cyanide-based white powder that sucks the oxygen out of the water and turns every asphyxiated fish belly up within a two-mile area. Reaching river's end after such an ordeal, male salmon...
...Japanese learn to compete early in life. Starting with kindergarten, they run a brutal educational gauntlet that gradually separates winners from losers. Young Japanese who join large corporations learn to set aside that kind of competitiveness in favor of cooperation and consensus. Members of the team share information and skills for the greater good of the company. As a result, the workplace becomes like a harmonious home...
Although all students must traverse this proselytizing gauntlet, the experience can be particularly bewildering for the College's approximately 400 Black students. No less than eight active Black organizations vie for these students' time, often offering entirely different ways for Blacks to involve themselves in the community...
...Fred Silverman, but enough people tuned in for their weekly fix of what Paul Claudel called "l' allure du vrai gentleman Anglais" to make a star of Clark. Thus he became the Leonard Bernstein of the visual arts, a fate that enormously surprised him: once, after running the gauntlet of hysterical fans at a ceremony in his honor at the National Gallery in Washington, he was so overcome with embarrassment that he had to lock himself in a bathroom and weep. He could not see why they saw him as a healer, but the reason is clear today...