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According to the instructor, injuries are usually the result of too much tension. So the first few days of lessons, Brown has her students gradually slide down on the ice until they fall, to help them realize "they won't hurt themselves if they just relax...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: A Bruised Bottom Never Hurt Anyone | 2/23/1991 | See Source »

Brown says that for her, ice skating is a way to relax. "It's a pretty good way to start the day once I get down [to Bright...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: A Bruised Bottom Never Hurt Anyone | 2/23/1991 | See Source »

...really needed something to relax," Dooley said. "We have had so many one-goal games--against Brown, Princeton, Cornell, and Northeastern--that it was nice to relax a little bit." Crimson, 6-1 at Bright Hockey Center HARVARD 2-3-1--6 Yale...

Author: By Elizabeth Resnick, | Title: Icewomen Trounce Elis, 6-1 | 2/14/1991 | See Source »

...amount of parkland can offset a tangle of ramps and roads the size of Boston Common. What person can relax, play or enjoy a park while thousand of cars circle above their head? No new housing can be built in the shadow of a colossal series of ramps and roads pooring soot and noise down on the land below. As Scheme Z opponent Gladys P. Gifford says, "You can't mitigate a monster...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: A Cambridge Monstrosity | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

Artful Equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then you lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply: `It Is Time to Disillusion' | 1/16/1991 | See Source »

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