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Though there is already an opportunity for inter-school contact over the plastic food trays and modernistic armchairs of Harkness Commons, dining halls are notoriously cliquish places. It is in the corridors and the communal washrooms that minds are most likely to rub, or bump together, and it is there that they should be mixed...
...Rub shoulders with reality. "If young men . . . are formed in character in an atmosphere too far removed from the world, when they leave the seminary they may find serious difficulties in their relations with the faithful and also with cultured laity . . . It is necessary to diminish gradually and with due prudence the present detachment of the future priest from the people so that he will not feel lost at the beginning of his ministry...
...delivered to the U.S. Congress a few hours earlier. For days, White House advisers and ghostwriters had turned out draft after draft-five in all. Clark Clifford and Judge Sam Rosenman, a couple of presidential phrase-turners from the old days, had dropped in during the week to help rub on some gloss...
Recently Becky began to rub her eyes alot. The Haires took her first to a pediatrician, then to an eye specialist, who called in eight others. Their verdict: Becky's ears, not her eyes, had followed her mother's movements. Becky had been born blind, apparently with cancer...
...Rub your heels in the sand-hard-to make them smooth...