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Postel said that increased pressures may be responsible because students are "more hesitant to take an exam when they are not feeling completely up to par...
Burns reads his Bible every night (about the same time that Jimmy Carter does) and he plots his genial strategy of survival. He wants another term as Fed chairman, and not because he likes to go to capital par ties and enjoys the aroma of power (which he does). But he thinks he is doing right by the nation to restrain the money sup ply, to preach a little caution, to stand immune from White House blandishments and politics. Burns views his ideas as good for the country's soul - and its pocketbook...
...camera is, it seems, the me chanical dandy par excellence. It is also the model of free choice. Sontag gives a wry account of the uses of photography in China, where "candid" shots are considered insulting and counterrevolution ary; there, photography, like every other mode of language, exists mainly to propagate ideology, and every image must be wholesome, posed, evenly lit, smiling; the camera is Big Brother's eye on the happy termitary. It is a repugnant alternative to the fragmented image, but, as Sontag gloomily concedes, there are no practicable alternatives...
...whole. It dis closes itself in time, and each passage of shapes is apt to erase and replace one's memory of its predecessor. In short, it aspires - to employ that gnomic phrase of Walter Pater's - toward the condition of music, the serial art par excellence...
...rebounded the Harvard women by approximately a two-to-one margin. Harvard managed to scrape up a paltry 19 rebounds, and obviously that kind of figure just doesn't make the grade against any half-decent team, which Brown amply proved itself to be. In addition, shooting was sub-par, and was limited to a very few people...