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There are a few who take solace in the observation that hyperbole is fashionable in and out of radical political cirles these days. Convinced that the University has dealt properly and efficaciously with the demonstrators, they will slink back to their offices and libraries hoping they can get on with their work without any further intrusions...
...Bronx Zoo on the loose. Tourists can travel 8,500 ft. up Mount Kenya to the bamboo-jungle-surrounded Secret Valley Game Lodge, a two-story building set on tree-trunk stilts, rent a room for $15 a day (including meals) and gaze in perfect safety at leopards that slink out of the night to feed on baited venison beneath a battery of floodlights. In the "other Africa"-to the north-the scenes and the accommodations are considerably different. Algeria has fallen far behind in tourist facilities. But in Morocco, there are hundreds of miles of beaches in the Blue...
Only once has Gage used his eye effectively: when the four lead animals, carrying candles, slink through an underground passage in front of a banquet table draped with silhouetted ferrets, stoats and weasels in tableau...
...John's, what would have happened had there been no union to protest this crime? 31 wounded academic victims would slink off in ineffective silence. To be sure, the A.A.U.P. would conduct an investigation; if the committee then recommended censure it would go before the annual meeting in April; then it might appear in the AAUP BULLETIN on the list of censured institutions. This is the "sanction" which the AAUP imposes. Our strike, a defensive action against a "lockout" of union learers active in the forefront of educational reform at St. John's has aroused the entire academic, labor...
...better days was-yes, that's the one-the procurator of Judea. It's some time in the ist century. Claudia is dictating a letter to her friend Fulvia: "I am the wife of the man who condemned Christ Jesus to death. If even here children slink away from us, let me believe that somewhere, some woman will understand-even as she, the mother of Jesus, would have understood...