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...trying to do something that is too difficult and too fast for his capabilities. Obviously, it is necessary to know what skiing involves before you take to the slopes. Fortunately, there are many simple booklets available to the novice and he should read some of them at the outset of his skiing career rather than while he is waiting for his broken leg to heal...
...outset, she is a normal, healthy little WASP who hums happily about her village. But in just a few weeks of slavery she develops most of the characteristics commonly adduced to denigrate U.S. Negroes. Treated as an inferior, she acquires a painful inferiority complex. She loathes herself for being white, and to punish herself she consorts with the filthiest white trash she can find. But even more than she loathes herself she hates the yellows, and to punish them she lies, cheats and steals...
...Lincoln Center rep company began compounding its errors from the outset. When it was set up nearly five years ago, the directors' first move was to go for Broadway brand names and select two of the best: Whitehead, producer of Bus Stop among other things, and Kazan, one of Broadway's most celebrated directors, who staged A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Arthur Miller, after eight years of silence as a playwright, offered his services, which at the time may have appeared to be a dividend...
...trying to do something that is too difficult and too fast for his capabilities. Obviously, it is necessary to know what skiing involves before you take to the slopes. Fortunately, there are many simple booklets available to the novice and he should read some of them at the outset of his skiing career rather than while he is waiting for his broken leg to heal...
...outset, The Game betrayed nothing of the fine effort to come. It looked like a depressingly typical Ivy contest. Yale's Jim Howard took Jerry Mechling's opening kickoff at the 3 and ran up the middle of the field through innumerable missed tackles to the Eli 27, where Steve Diamond finally brought him down...