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Once they dressed me in a chador ((the head-to-toe veil of strictly religious Muslim women)) and put those little round spot Band-Aids on my eyes, and then they put the sunglasses on. Well, the Band-Aids came loose, and with the prescription sunglasses on, I could see perfectly well. So I was sitting in the back of the car with a guard sitting next to me, just kind of peering around...
...veil of secrecy surrounding the first-year dean search apparently extended to the Freshman Dean's Office itself, which will probably be affected most significantly by the new appointment...
These things may seem obvious, but it is easy to lose sight of the real motivation that drives hardcore classical music listeners when they cloak their enjoyments with a veil of esotericism, exchanging knowing winks and nods at the sales counter when someone asks who the composer of "Don Giovanni...
...walks, to be in nature." Raisa: "He is exaggerating. He is always working. We have no time to be together. I hope all this will come." Gorbachev: "Nature is everything to us. We prefer to go for walks in winter, when there is a snowstorm. Everything disappears in a veil of snow. In these moments, you feel eternity...
...Morgan had provided some information about the leadership of the newspaper. From my name, and from the names of other top executives, Jeffries determined that the Crimson was a "Jewish newspaper" that would merely manipulate his comments. In some measure, it was my name, torn from behind my comfortable veil, that had provoked his angry words. It was Jeffries's anti-Semitism, directed towards me, that had brought Morgan to my door...