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Perhaps it is a sign of cultural maturity; in any case, it is a welcome, and slightly amazing, development. In an almost measurable way, the average age of desirability in American women seems to have risen by a dozen years or more. Women who might have been inclined to sigh ruefully at the inanity of a shampoo ad telling them, "You're not getting older, you're getting better," are starting to believe that it may actually be true. As for men, many of whom are still afflicted by a kind of sandbox nympholepsy-the women desired being...
...ALMOST impossible to perform this particular balancing sequence really well, and Bauer went about it with visible tension. She almost grabbed her partners' hands, and the final arabesque expressed not so much a triumphant affirmation as a sigh of relief for everyone in the auditorium. In spite of that, her Aurora in this scene and elsewhere was delicate and endearing, each meticulously careful gesture hinting at the hesitance of the not-quite-grownup child...
Plop-plop, fizz-fizz. The Harvard men's tennis team breathed a sigh of relief at Palmer Dixon yesterday after handing Navy a convincing 6-3 defeat in a win that was badly needed to get the Crimson on track in the Eastern League following a mediocre 2-3 spring trip...
When he died, King had begun to turn his attention to an issue that has since grown yet more important: economic justice. Rather than sigh with resignation and say "If only he were alive today," we should peer ahead, as he did, and concern ourselves with the social issues King would have addressed were he with us today...
SUSAN SCHIEFELBEIN'S piece in the recent Saturday Review, "Confusion at Harvard: What Makes an 'Educated Man'?" gives the impression that the Harvard community sighed collectively in relief, when the Core Curriculum was unveiled. The sigh, however, was more of a shudder, or perhaps a gulp of disbelief. It quickly became evident that Rosovsky and the Faculty Council were not fooling around; the reform was vast, bespeaking a change in the philosophy of education. Professors and the Committee on Undergraduate Education have proposed a slew of amendments--many of which have been neutralized by a heavily pro-Core Faculty Council...