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...stage fright. Still, the tape on the end of the line, expectantly unreeling, silent as a director awaiting the audition, does intimidate. The caller feels ambushed, like one who has suddenly learned he is being bugged. He becomes more ... responsible for his words. They are not going to vanish into air. They can be replayed again and again, like the videotape of a fumble. The machine subtly puts the caller on the defensive, thus reversing the usual telephone psychology, in which the caller is the aggressor, breaking in upon another's silence...
...bottom line, again, may be the reality of getting ready for that job. Says Dean Mary Ackerman of Macalester College in St. Paul: "There is more concern about careers, about what awaits them after graduation." But beware too much explanation. Next year-or the next-the ghosts could vanish, students may decide to live under mushrooms, and college dorms could become as depopulated as statistical experts have been predicting all along...
...white temple it is always quiet. No lobbyists or reporters hover about the paneled chambers; tall bronze gates seal off the cool marble passageways from the public. The black-robed Justices emerge onto the high bench only to hear the arguments of deferential lawyers, and then vanish again behind a thick velvet curtain. They deliberate in secret, insulated and remote from the hurly-burly of American politics...
...spikers snatched an easy two-game lead from Tufts at the Indoor Athletic Building yesterday afternoon, then witnessed their huge advantage vanish into a three-point deficit in the fifth game before they finally regained their composure to emerge victorious...
...thought we couldn't possibly get away with it," she told TIME. "The single most astonishing fact is that nobody guessed it was me." The mild ripple created by her books was less surprising. "A very good first novel can get published and get good reviews and then vanish," she said. "Few publishers have the attitude they used to have: keep the writers in print...