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...minor contention. No one would seriously suggest that the resources freed up by even the most drastic retrenchment in federal requirements actually will dramatically facilitate the hiring of women or minorities Reducing the "immense burden of paperwork" will make the lives of department chairmen and search committees more pleasant. Whether it will make them more efficient purveyors of affirmative action seems another story entirely...
...prices for hard-cover books are high [March 22], but a ticket to a Broadway show costs two or three times as much for only a few pleasant hours, and that's it. You can reread a book again and again. You can lend it to family and friends. It looks nice on the bookshelf...
...decades, the standard way to straighten out a child's curved spine was with a bulky back brace. Worn for up to eight years, it was not a pleasant prospect for the 25 out of 1,000 American teen-agers (90% girls) afflicted with spinal curvatures, or scoliosis. For those with severe curves, surgery often was required. It too had its unpleasant consequences, sometimes including nine months' confinement in a hip-to-chin plaster body cast...
...reordered, so the production was not a fair test of the opera's stage worthiness. At Eszterháza, Haydn could call on a large cast of silent extras to provide plenty of spectacle, and the theater's sophisticated stage machinery-which could transform settings from a pleasant garden to an enchanted wood or a glorious hall-was expected to carry a good deal of the dramatic load...
...that tells everyone who's boss, heard their clamor and got the giggles. She couldn't stop. Rex Smith, on-stage with her, felt himself begin to laugh-a realization, this open-faced, 26-year-old rock singer recalls, that is not at all pleasant, but rather like that of a mountain climber who feels himself beginning to slide...