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...Okay, relax. Next question...
...first place -- which helps explain his hypersensitivity to criticism that someone avid for Cabinet rank might shrug off. He says he became so tense and grouchy in intelligence work that it took the first 10 of his 12 years in private life for him to relax. His wife Nancy had begun to make a career for herself as a photographer and dreaded returning to Washington. On Dec. 14, says Inman, he called the White House to refuse the job offer; it took 15 hours of argument by Secretary of State Warren Christopher, an old friend, and two White House aides...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynxeyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that AE'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...
...ludicrous is it to say to relax the week before exams at Harvard?" Delaney Smith said...
...fullest. Yes, we have papers due during reading period. Yes, we do catch up on the reading that we have not done all semester. But few of us study every moment of every day during reading period. Many students stay home for part of reading period, or relax for the first few days. In addition, shortening reading period does not give anyone an unfair advantage. Each of us would have fewer days of study time, and would therefore be forced to study more efficiently...