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...both resemble Bette Davis in her middle years. They approach, incline the planes of their cheeks. Three to four inches from contact, they close their eyes in a split-second transport of fraudulent bliss, and smack their lips minutely upon nothing, as if releasing little butterflies. A somewhat rarer treat: the "hair tangle," which requires a tall, long-haired woman and a shorter man; woman inclines head to offer cheek, man goes to peck cheek, woman's hair falls in way, man ends with lips and glasses entangled in hair. Rapid disengagement follows...
...withdrawal was a rebuke not only to Sorensen but to Carter. Only eight presidential Cabinet appointees have been rejected by the Senate in U.S. history. It is even rarer for a nominee to be turned down by a Congress controlled by the President's own party. The last time that happened was in 1925, when Charles Warren, Calvin Coolidge's choice for Attorney General, was rejected because he was too closely identified with the Sugar Trust...
Ward also finds reason to smile. Though the greater number of first-floor parties has inevitably raised the noise level in her basement apartment, she is just as glad that she hears markedly fewer complaints than last year. Requests for transfers are also rarer, and all stem from uncontrollable factors such as roommate incompatibility. "It's a much happier place to be," she grins...
Single rooms--those rarities enjoyed mostly by seniors and Quad-dwellers--will become a bit rarer next year when Lowell House becomes the fifth River House to adopt a no-singles rooming policy...
...keeping such bombing secret? In either case it is clear that the instructor's private prejudices would have to surface. Perhaps simply talking about such cases can be beneficial. But it is a rare professor that can subordinate his or her own views on such matters, and an even rarer student that can look upon those views with objectivity...