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...over her eyes, right hand holding a gun pointing down at a dead white cat which lies in the street in its own blood. The whole is entitled "No Hard Felines." But, almost as if the Poonies felt this was too subtle a dig for its prospective readers (a subset of the readership of Life?, they talk in another part of the magazine about Life's "cute miscellany snapshot of somebody's noxious cocker spaniel wearing a lampshade on its head...
...academic venture for those students who have spent their Harvard careers regaling dining hall companions and Blue Parrot dates with tales out of "Harvard Folklore and Mythology." All the great stories are apocryphal, with many variations springing off a few main themes. The Harvard "paper story" is an important subset...
...Students who come back from Canada will probably also have to go to jail," he added, "so that this second group is really only a subset of the first, but they have to be regarded from a very different point of view. They may have paid their civil debt but they ran away from it in the beginning...
...differentiated from an introductory departmental course where goals are necessarily more limited. Of course some introductory departmental courses may have the same effect as a Gen Ed course and that is indeed why some have become Gen Ed courses. But these departmental courses are properly seen as a subset of the larger group of Gen Ed courses...
...fascinating memoir of the past two decades, The Age of Suspicion. The autobiography is a recalling of history, not a hiding or a rewring of it. Weschsler lived the three most agonizing years of his life with those who re-write history, not a hiding and he spent the subset quest 16 years fighting against communism and fascism and for liberalism. Most readers will be canvinced beyond a shadow of a doubt of the patriotism of Wechsler since...