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Ozmeni has another, more singular, reason for running: He likes going out in "those reflecting clothes which my wife insists I wear lest she be widowed. That's part of the fun, isn't it, wearing all that strange gear. It's like being part of a carnival or festival or something." He especially enjoys blinking his flashlight at oncoming cars to remind drivers to dim their headlights...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Sound Minds and Sound Bodies | 12/2/1982 | See Source »

...Queen of Angels," the poet actually finds the queen of angels--of says he does. His queen is the same as that of Williams, who writes in Paterson. "Say it, no ideas but in thing." Mudd's entire reason for living is the city's vigor the singular relish humanity takes in its own creations, Eventually, paradise can come on earth. Odes have been written to cities before, but never one so convincing in its optimism...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Freeway to Heaven | 11/23/1982 | See Source »

...contact was a measure of a man's determination, Johnson locked eyes with Kosygin at one crucial point. Needing a sip of coffee, L.B.J. felt for his cup on the table rather than release his visual grip on Kosygin, who finally blinked and looked away. Johnson thought this singular human triumph was important. Perhaps it was. If some day we ever get a glimpse of Kremlin papers, we may find an unusual report from Kosygin on the day he locked eyes with Lyndon Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Locking Eyes at the Top | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

James J. Scannell, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, called the donation "the biggest thing in higher education as a singular response to the crisis of financial...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Cornell Gets $7 Million Gift To Increase Aid to Students | 11/6/1982 | See Source »

...candidates for council chairman indicates anything, most of the new outfit's self styled leaders are equally out to lunch A mere two or three expressed concrete ideas. Several, ludicrously enough, based their candidacies on their "experience" in the pathetic Student Assembly that went belly-up last spring, its singular accomplishment being its securing of toilet paper for the River Houses several years back. Most spoke in only the most banal of generalizations and platitudes...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: The Same Old Song | 10/22/1982 | See Source »

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