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...Throughout this process, Candace impressed everyone with her commitment and enthusiasm for the job, her deep understanding of Harvard's culture, particularly from the faculty perspective, and her impressive grasp of crucial human resources issues, such as benefits and compen- sation," she continued...
...generally manages to put - the drama in the paint, not in the narrative. In fact, the best triptychs are not narratives in any decipherable sense. "I don't want to avoid telling a story," Bacon remarked to Sylvester, "but I want very, very much ... to give the sen sation without the boredom of its conveyance. And the moment the story enters, the boredom comes upon...
...winter long must suffer the cold winds of St. Petersburg whipping through his gauze thin overcoat. Compelled to buy a new one at painful cost, he talks to it, sleeps with it, defends it against a threatening moth. Next day, miraculously, Akaky Akakievich and his overcoat create a sen sation at work. His former tormentors are now backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party. But on the way home that night, ruffians accost Akakievich, steal his coat and with it his reason for existence. Again friendless, the cipher succumbs to madness and death; yet his ghost remains...
Several years ago Everett House residents livened its sign-ins by using a colored pencil system to indicate the calibre of their dates. A yellow sign-in signified "intellectual conver-sation," green meant "walk and eat," blue indicated "movie and dancing," and red "a perfectly swell time." A purple signature meant "all this and Heaven...
Richards also pointed to the program at the Great Lakes Naval Training, Sation recently. The Bluejacket's Manual, Bible of the Navy, was put into Basic English, and a group of 15 to 20 sailors studied the simplified version. They made better scores than did those who used the standard text, and they learned it more rapidly...