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...students, we are just the bottom of the academic brown-nosing ladder. In theory, we get concerned about the lack of academic freedom for untenured instructors. We feel that they should be able to say whatever they want without fear of repercussions when university committees decide promotions...
Ever time I write a paper, I step onto the long ladder of academic brown-nosing...
Gammons's set for Long Day's Journey stunningly evokes an abstract dream world. Mary's ladder leads to a very physical dream world of morphine in an upstairs room, but even the ground-level activities of this family take on a nightmarish eeriness. The backs of the four chairs are conspicuously unmatched and resemble the outline of a coffin. The set may be too aesthetically pleasing to fit Mary's description of her cheap home, but that in fact only increases our sense of her delusions...
...Nolan Derouen flicks the taut string and imprints a fuzzy red stripe across the board. They slice the wood to size, carry it into Betty Hines' living room and nail it to the ceiling. Hines works at the back of the room, straining from the rungs of a ladder as she attaches tiles to the plywood with the aid of one of Derouen's assistants. Heavy rains, excessive groundwater and years of neglect in southern Louisiana's sugarcane region have led to creeping decay in Hines' home. Now, instead of harsh sunshine peeking through rotting walls, daylight filters through brand...
...important goal [of federal policy] is to provide an economic ladder up," he said. "That ladder must reach down to the very bottom of the pile so that everyone has a chance to grab that bottom rung...