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...field and its challenges. Some of this kind of information was provided by the papers and informal discussions, but so was another aspect of academic life: I discovered that my name tag, covered with shining, transparent plastic, was to most of the attendants a kind of eye-searing lamp which exposed to them their own sense of insufficiency. Because I wore a sign reading...
Like many Presidents, Nixon likes to get out of Washington as often as possible, especially to Key Biscayne or San Clemente, where he restores his tan (he does not use a sun lamp) and enjoys saltwater swimming. His other exercise, in Washington or elsewhere, is most often walking, and he fits in a very occasional game of golf or bowling...
...FLEETING, final confrontation. It is the end of a heavy autumn day, probably a Thursday, Sybil is walking back from the Coop, carrying all the books for two new courses, a lamp-shade and a box of ginger snaps. Coming towards her, she recognizes Stanley, an old boyfriend whom she has not seen since the summer. She looks up at him, and he stares at her, stares right through her as if they have never met. They have known each other for years, have exchanged birthday presents, have probably slept together. He looks right through her and doesn't speak...
...expert than Aristotle Onassis. Don't worry about your physical shortcomings ("I am no Greek god"), he told the highly motivated readers of a magazine called Success Unlimited. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive; maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic; patronize posh watering places even if you have to nurse your drinks. Never niggle when short of cash. "Borrow big, but always repay...
...Consider those maimed excuses for Merry Mount that have come to serve, ever so ineptly, as its substitute. On New Year's Eve (Oh, God! A year older and what have we accomplished?) the children of Myles Standish are condemned to gather with noisemakers, paper hats and lamp shades, and out of sheer embarrassment get smashed. The stocks could not hurt worse than such gross incompetence at ritual gaiety. Every New Year's Eve, Thomas Morton is avenged...