Word: vigilance
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Even now, English professor Helen H. Vendlerfears unpreparedness in front of the class. "It'sa surefire occurrence, no matter how long I'vebeen teaching," she says. Vendler, rather thandreading catastrophe, says "the vigil night beforeclasses, I'm always anxious about the usualthings--coming to class without a book, notremembering a quotation...
...Part of the Vigil...
...short a live interview with Larry King in the library of the residence, he immediately called Hillary, who was in Little Rock. He then ordered an unmarked van to take him to Georgetown to visit Foster's wife Lisa. He stayed there for several hours, then returned for a vigil with friends at the White House, where he said "we did a lot of crying and a little bit of laughing" remembering the man Clinton called his Rock of Gibraltar. "When I was told what happened," he recalled, "I just kept thinking in my mind of when we were...
...missing in society is what was missing in me -- a little heart, a lot of brotherhood . . . And to see that we must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul." She posed the questions of her own vigil: "When does life start? When does life end? Who makes those decisions, and how do we dare impinge upon these areas of such delicate, difficult questions?" Her father died the next...
...blue van that then parked on her street when they were home. Two weeks before Gunn's murder, she had moved; her address had begun appearing in pro-life pamphlets. "I told the police this was going to happen," she said, shivering in the cold during a candlelight vigil outside the Ladies Center. "Last Friday when I was leaving work, that man was beating on my car window and wouldn't let me go. They were stalking us, the antiabortionists, but the police wouldn't believe...