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...lonely and exacting business. Paul Theroux (The Mosquito Coast, The Great Railway Bazaar) is succinct: "Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves." Robert Stone (Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise) is windy and funny: "I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner. So, I thought, I'm really feeling crazy today, I think I'll go see a shrink ... He was everything that a psychiatrist should be: ... Jewish ... very together, very humane. I went to him, and I talked to him, and he said, 'What you need is religion...
Midway through the second period, freshman Julie Saner lit the lamp, and before the ambush was over. Karen Carney and Kelly Landry had each shipped in a score to give the stickwomen an insurmountable edge...
...month, Bok had to weave his way back through an all-night party, "The Encampment for Divestiture," that bivouacked in front of Massachusetts Hall last month--complete with cases of Budweiser and Hong Kong take-out. Confronted by a mob that demanded he speak up, Bok suggested that the saner locale of his office might be a better environment to discuss Harvard's $440 million of investments in companies that have some amount of operations in South Africa. Divestitures nailed him for trying to avoid the issue altogether...
...season. . ." Mabrey will give her squad today off in an attempt to alleviate the weariness that has plagued it over the last couple of games. Fatigue shouldn't pose as much of a problem once the Ivy schedule starts. Though the games get tougher, the schedule gets saner with the stick women taking on only two opponents per week...
...course, the main reason for the death of the insult is the death of confrontation in general. Time was when enemies would wholeheartedly enjoy squaring off, ram to ram. Not today, not in the world of cold war conversation, where it is judged safer and saner to say nothing and assume the worst than to say the worst and get on with it. Now the insult retreats behind a tinny smile and emerges lame from the mouths of wimps at cocktail parties, grasping soda water in both hands and leveling a whine: "I really don't think much...