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What's L. Fred doing with the hoi poloi in line at the Coop...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...considerable skill in facing an audience with composure. If the candidate is expected to think during his examination, that is, put more into his answers than parroted memory work, he must have the training of a soap-box orator to withstand professorial heckling in the face of amused hoi poloi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEAR-BAITING | 2/23/1934 | See Source »

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