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Toepfer blamed the oversize class on a surprisingly few number of withdrawals. It had been expected that the armed services would shrink the number of entering students to around 525, but it appears that no such attrition has occurred...
...have asked the merciful Father of us all to let this cup pass from me. But from such dread responsibility one does not shrink in fear, in self-interest, or in false humility...
Kogi men, says Reichel-Dolmatoff, loathe sex and shrink from it, an attitude they learn as boys from priests who spend nine years in darkness studying the tribal rituals. The priests, called mamas, teach that women are evil-but a necessary evil, because they provide men with food. Thus embittered against women, boys are initiated into a reluctant sexual role by a 60 year-old hag, and then sent out to seek wives...
...long before the Wisconsin presidential primary (in which he was roundly defeated), he announced that he was available for the Republican nomination. Only last March, while saying that he was not a candidate in this campaign, he referred to another statement in which he said he would not "shrink . . . from accepting any public duty...
Last week, with Vermont's snows just beginning to shrink, Santo was busy in his backyard studio finishing a picture of Bennington's Baptist Church. In another month, he will exchange his canvases and palette for buckets and ladder. His big ambition is to sell enough pictures to be able to give up house painting for good...