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...disparate as their personalities and interests would always be, each furnished the fundamental relationship in the other's childhood and young adulthood from the days when the long-jump pit of Evelyn's team served as their sandbox. There might have been no Carl without Carol. In high school she was a force, a varsity diver and gymnast who played recreation-league softball, ran track, waved pom-poms and wished she could do more. Carl attempted hail-fellow sports like baseball, but as a coach of that period remembers, "he was always picking daisies in centerfield." For Lewis, track became...
...SANDBOX EXERCISE...
...Geneva, even Kvitsinsky scoffed at the notion that the British and French forces were any match for the SS-20s; comparing them was, he said, "a sandbox exercise." Nitze noted wryly that Kvitsinsky's apparent contempt for the British and French weapons negated the Soviets' own argument for counting them in an agreement. In another unguarded but revealing moment, Kvitsinsky blurted out the real purpose of the Soviet position: "You have no business in Europe...
...faculty party, Lianna spots Dick frolicking in a sandbox with one of his female students. When, later in the evening, she accuses him of indefidelity, he neither admits to not denies the charge. But the thin trickle of sand as he removes his shoe confirms his guilt. Lianna leaves him and moves in with Ruth, her night-school psychology professor. It's that simple. One day she is married, the next she has a female lover...
Perhaps because of the talent for self-assertion that being involved in campus politics requires, the term "politico" has acquired a negative connotation among the non-bushy-tailed on campus, as in: "The Undergraduate Council is just a sandbox on the politicos' playground." But this is unfair. By and large, student politicos are sincere. Most of them have a well-considered vision of how to make this country better, and most of them quite unselfishly want to see their vision become public policy. Of course, the very ambitious among the politicos do want to turn those summer jobs in Washington...