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Great Grandmother Sir: Re "Israel's New Premier" [March 14]: I resent your necessity to refer to the leader of a nation as "the 70-year-old grandmother." Did you ever refer to Johnson by saying "so said the grandfather," or to Konrad Adenauer as "the 90-year-old grandfather...
...breaking the sex barrier, she rode and won her first race six weeks ago in Charles Town, W. Va. "Horse racing is pretty rank [rough]," she admits, but she guards herself from rank track language by stuffing her ears with cotton before each race. Though some jockeys still resent women encroaching on their livelihood, their ranks cannot help looking up to Barbara Jo. At 5 ft. 5 in., she says, "most of the jockeys only come up to my shoulders. So when they go to take a group picture, I kind of bend my knees...
...hotly arguing the issue for months. A series of student-faculty protests against the ABM have taken place on university campuses. In areas where ABM facilities might be situated, there have been angry citizens' meetings and demonstrations that the Pentagon's representatives have been unable to mollify. The protesters resent such use of desirable sites, fear that the missiles might be unsafe and, furthermore, insist that their presence would make the host community a special target for the enemy in the event...
...Last War's End, the first play on the bill, is subtitled "A Ritual." That gives it all away. Even though I realize rituals have been with us for a long time, I can't help but resent their current popularization. Done poorly--as they usually are--they are often just an excuse for rehashing tired banalities...
...their entire first year's performance to six exams at the end of the year is unnecessarily unpleasant and sometimes dehumanizing. Many students decline the challenge and meander through the year, hoping only to get by." Some find themselves distracted by the atmosphere of tension and isolation, and they resent it. Others feel they have no choice but to work toward the system's goal, but they find that that goal--high performance on exams--has only a tangential relationship to their mastery of the law. They find the system of meting out rewards and punishments at the end gratuitous...