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Mesmer undertakes to perform this transference. He emerges from behind heavy drapes accompanied by gentle harmonies from a hidden orchestra (a noted patron of music, Mesmer has commissioned an opera, Bastien und Bastienne, from a local prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart). Mesmer then installs up to 30 patients around a tub equipped with magnetic rods for the transfer of the fluid. In recent weeks, he has stopped using magnets and now says he can transfer the fluid through his own hands...
...first installment of Answered Prayers, set at Manhattan's La Côte Basque restaurant during lunchtime, Capote was out to make his readers throw up while his characters ate. But he is merely a sniggering Boy Scout compared with Jonathan Swift, who, in A Tale of a Tub, had a character kneel in the street to pray, then void his bladder in the eyes of the passersby leaning over to investigate...
Such interdisciplinary programs run entirely against the each-tub-on-its-own-bottom structure of the University; as Francis H. Burr '35, senior fellow of the Corporation, says, "If selection and promotion of faculty is done within departments, it's very hard to get people to think in interdepartmental, interdisciplinary terms, because that's not where the rewards are. Something has got to evolve, exactly what is going to come up I don't know. The most conservative body in the world is a faculty, especially a Faculty of arts and sciences." While Bok downplays the difficulties of setting...
...with some male companions at a popular watering hole, Longet returned to Sabich's house. Soon afterward, she phoned the Aspen Valley Hospital to report that there had been a shooting. Sheriffs officers, police and ambulance attendants found Sabich lying in the master bathroom, next to a sunken tub, mortally wounded by a single .22-cal. bullet in the abdomen. As Aspen Valley's Dr. Charles Williams related it, Longet "told police officers that he [Sabich] was showing me how to hold the gun and it went...
There are many historical and institutional reasons for the discord that now cripples the GSD: the last dean's laissez-faire approach left the school in administrative turmoil and on the brink of fiscal disaster; the relatively small GSD is especially vulnerable at Harvard, where each "tub" must stand on its own budgetary "bottom"; and physical designers, quantitative planners, and user-oriented GSD students and faculty have continually disputed the appropriate recipe for a design education. The list goes...