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Which of us can resist that tinge of pride that comes from basking in the glow of one of our Own--that narcissistic gleam which is sparked when our eyes alight, somewhere in the "Real world," on a Harvard name: Marjorie Garber on the Op-Ed page of The Boston Globe, Robert Reich telling all on Oprah, Jill McCorkle's latest novel staring out from B. Dalton's or Neil's "exausted" mug on the cover of Newsweek. So it was with a feeling of excitement that I headed over to the Hasty Pudding Theatre to watch Demons...
...whole scene is overtly sentimental, but Grady's emotion is described unselfconsciously so that we don't resist it: "I was seized with a powerful longing to put my arms around [Irv], to brush his rough cheek against mine, to sit down and eat the bread of affliction with him and with Emily and with all of the Warshaws. They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I could...
...couldn't resist writing something...
...Sacks is especially engaging at a time of highly specialized, technical and increasingly impersonal medicine. Who, these days, wouldn't want a warm, erudite physician, one who might prescribe a cat as well as a CAT scan? Who could resist bragging about My Doctor the Writer? Certainly not those whose lives he honors in his books...
...amendment. The loss was also the first real sign that major provisions of a contract born in the House, where the budget amendment breezed through in two days, could meet death at an early age in the Senate. And for once Democratic leaders who had been struggling to resist the Republicans were able to frame an issue their way, even if they had to resort to the oldest liberal scare tactic. Against the irresistible force of budget-balancing sentiment they placed the immovable object of Social Security's sanctity...