Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later that same week, Ed got a door slammed in his face, and over Thanksgiving vacation, the police received yet another call about him. The anxiety level among women students fearing attack was high during December--early in the month, Harvard police released a sketch of the suspect showing a black man, tall, and in his early 20's, and many Harvard students seemed to fit the description. There was an explanation as to why women peered out of their peep holes and refused to open the door for Ed. He is black, tall, in his early...
...blind has an added advantage: it overshadows his blackness and people tend to see him as a blind person first, and then as a black person. All the same, Ed finds it difficult to believe that being black and blind is really an advantage. Putting it on a social level, Ed says, "If I ask a girl out and she says 'no' then I always have to wonder, 'Is it because I'm black or because I'm blind.' And then I have to say, 'Why did this happen to me--where did I go wrong...
There were mixed feelings over the noise level in the library, and as always, comments addressed the issue of squeaky shoes...
...snaps out of his fantasy and back to the reality of his job as a baker, he fouls up the cake decorator, spewing streams of sticky icing in an imbecillic lapstick scene a la Laurel and Hardy. This, instead of the first scene, in an indicator of the usual level of entertainment in Wilder's latest creation...
...This level-headed approach to the game may be the key to Mark's success as this year's captain. Number-two player John Havens remarked, "Due to the perspective he keeps on his own squash game, Mark helps to keep a relaxed, but enthusiastic, atmosphere for the team...