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...ones might include the description of Wintergreen as "the ruler of our Government/the one who taught what love meant' and the description of the First Baby as a "Dictator-tot." As Lisa Olmos notes in the program booklet, "Of Thee I Sing/ is a florid testament of Ira's skill at "letting the melody fit the rhyme...
...life ran together--some would say to the extent that the discussion of one can not help but bleed into a discussion of the other. There was a sportsman's code to which he held himself and all others, a code of scrupulous honesty, precision, self-control, courage, skill and stoicism: and the code which governed his life also pervades his spare and detached writing, dictating not only the actions and responses of his heroes and heroines from Nick Adams through the protagonist known to the American high-schooler only as the Old Man, but also the shape...
...Poon has no qualms about being underhanded if it means he'll hit his target. An unsuspecting mark once helped him collect some darts in the Mather basement and then Poon shot him at point blank. "He said, 'But I trusted you.' I said, 'Sorry babe.'" Poon attributes his skill at the game to two things: "I have an escort. And I'm always strapped. Always...
...future assassin campaigns at Harvard, though, Lim's skill promises only to improve. Whenever he suspects he is being followed, he calls for backup or, alternatively, just runs away. His own natural anxious tendencies prove essential. "Look over one shoulder every four steps. Look over the other shoulder after another four steps," he warns. Everyone had better watch out at least this much for this deadly rookie...
Considering the skill and effect that students such as LeBow can contribute to the classroom, why is teaching so belittled within the student culture's career appraisals...