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...captain faced each other, Harvard's Lauren Norton versus Dartmouth's Janics Ellis, while in the other zone, yardling net-minder Cheryl Tate looked out of her mask at Big Green winger DeAngelis at the red line...
...accused Reagan of wanting to "throw open the door of Alaska to allow the rape of our last frontier" and of being unconcerned about acid rain. Against such thrusts, Reagan practiced calm parries. He responded to Stockman by saying, "Well, you know, John, I think you need a gas mask...
Wade Lau stood in the crease, with his mask dangling at his side, alone but for the guys who put the ice to bed after a game. His face told the whole story, the story of 5-11 season, of five losses in a row and nine out of the last ten, the story of the Clarkson goal with 23 seconds left in the game which sent the Crimson icemen to a 3-2 defeat at Bright Center Saturday night...
Neither Reagan's exuberance nor the programmed gaiety of Washington could fully mask the bittersweet nature of the passage of power. As the caravan moves on, someone must yield. It has not been an easy time for Jimmy Carter. Transitions are for winners, not losers. Yet, there was the feeling that Carter had been a better President after defeat than before, that his actions in the transition were more graceful and selfless than when he worried so much about political survival. Perhaps Carter, too, heard voices from the past, like that of Muriel Humphrey in her last days...
...associative" brain which connects events from the past and enables us to use language. Laborit doesn't really like this third brain, also known as the cerebral cortex, because it allows humans to be programmed by society; it gives us the power to create "excuses, reasons, and alibis" to mask our pure animal instincts. Language and culture, then, deny us the fulfilment of our strong, unconscious drives...