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When you're writing a thesis, you become a mindless shut-in, a recluse, a pariah. Your only contact with the outside world is whatever wafts in on the breeze through the sixth-floor windows in Mather House (last week, that meant 30 inches of snow, and I had quite...
In the morning, the underground leader is captured and Lucien finds himself effectively expelled from local society, and as a result, drifts into collaboration. The aristocrat takes him to be fitted for a fancy suit from a Jewish tailor--one of Paris' most fashionable before the war--whom he's...
The campaign, he felt, would hinge on the 15,650 absentee and shut-in voters. Early in the campaign he set in motion a plan that included his older workers going from door to door in order to capture most of the shut-in vote. Chafee based his tactics on...
Americans tend to think of Europeans above the peasant level as highly sophisticated. Still, season after season, Broadway imports some foreign shows of such pristine simple-mindedness that they could not be fobbed off on a shut-in from Cucamonga.
Between radio jobs, there are respites of sorts. Gibson spends a year as a phony invalid in a convalescent home where he enthusiastically joins the shut-in life. "Until you've potato-raced against a congenital one-legged man in a sack you haven't potato-raced," he...