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Muscovites jokingly refer to Nixon as "Moscow's new chief architect...
...first, they not only sent their children to the public grade schools, a longtime Amish practice, but some parents permitted their teen-agers to attend two years of high school as well. Still, they feared that high school would tempt their children to "go English," as the Amish refer to slipping into worldly ways. The "English" world is non-Amish society; among themselves most Amish speak the German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch, and in religious services they use High German. New Glarus Farmer Wallace Miller, father of twelve and one of the respondents in the Supreme Court case, explained...
...policy to which I refer is that which allows readers to grade and comment on senior theses anonymously. Students who would like to discuss either their thesis or the comments on the thesis with their readers are unable to do so. Three weeks ago my thesis was returned to me with comments which I considered largely irrelevant. I asked to speak with my readers in the hope, not of changing the grade--two years of work make one fairly indifferent to something as arbitrary as grade--but of talking over the thesis and the comments to try to understand...
...personal nature of this exchange--unsuccessfully masked by the metaphors of institution and regulation --the sensed presence of a third and fourth individual hovers over the first eight letters like the CRR photographer at an obstructive picket line, making itself felt explicitly only in the very final exchange. I refer in part, of course, to the requisite Other Woman. How much is left unsaid by the simple title "vice president" consistently attached to Katherine Moos's name does not become clear until, following Epps's request that she designate an SDS member to supervise security. Moos replies bluntly: "Bonnie Blustein...
...Harrison's criticisms weren't fair. They were meant to humiliate you personally. He would refer to people on the team as "dummy" or "stupid" and insult their basic intelligence," he said...