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This makes it easier for students to experiment with co-op living, according to Bashkow, because they can move back to their original House if they don't like the co-op, and even if they remain at the co-op they do not have to sever all ties with their former House...
...like moonlight, was "cruelly deceptive"; sometimes because he saw himself as an English Pierrot, the clown whose laughter cannot quite disguise the catch in his throat. Of the nearly 300 songs in Coward's collection, the dead-on love ballads are the weakest: "Time and tide can never sever/ Those whom love has bound forever" serves to remind the reader that Coward grew up in the Edwardian heyday. But such songs as I'll See You Again, Someday I'll Find You and A Room with a View display the author's unique amalgam of anticipation...
This interplay of opposites, this urge for combat coupled with a sense of war's futility, seems especially contempo rary, a striking instance of the modern temper born in trenches sever al wars ago. In his unobtrusive manner, Sassoon was one of the makers of that temper. Thanks to Fussell's adroit editing, readers can once again accompany him on the author's Long Journey and, in the process, discover much about that worthy hunter of foxes and truth, and far more about their own time...
...link between people and institutions. Without the information provided by newspapers and TV, citizens would have little basis for deciding what to believe and whom to support. Just as a pervasive mistrust of police could cause a breakdown of order, a growing hostility to the press could sever the ligaments of a workable society...
...designed, planned or managed construction of Blodgett Pool, Bright Hockey Center, Albert H. Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Building. Briggs Cage, the $22.5 million Soldiers Field Park housing project, and numerous University renovation projects including Sever Hall and Pea-body Museum. In all, since 1979 he has managed projects totalling $150 million...