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Pusey specifically cites the Kennedy School of Governement's new Public Policy program as "the most vivid single example" of the new direction. The intent of the multi-disciplinary program is "to produce scholars. lawyers. physicians. business executives and others who will be able to work in and out of government, pursuing private careers and public service," Pusey says...
Written under a pseudonym by a Catholic priest, it is a rambling, disjointed story about two boys in the Louisiana Cajun country that includes homosexual episodes more vague than vivid. But Shelton found the story "pornographic" and unsuitable for Atlanta. "I regard its appearing there," he explained, "the way I would have if one of my daughters had been violated...
...Especially relevant to the UFO sightings," he said, "are the often vivid mental images which occur when drowsiness and fatigue begin to overcome us and yet we remain awake...
...impregnated ?terus in her old lover, who got her pregnant and deserted her to pursue a legal career fighting abortion. The horrors of pregnancy are outlined as he protests against his condition ("I don't believe it. I can't believe this nightmare."), while the woman in curt, but vivid, medical language-describes what pregnancy does to the body...
...also resorts to vivid metaphors in urging that counterrevolutionaries not be executed. "A head isn't like a leek," he said. "It doesn't grow again once it's been cut." Mao's most recurrent metaphors refer to the digestive process, which evidently fascinates him. In his Lushan speech, in which he characteristically called on his colleagues to join him in discharging their feelings of guilt for the failures of the Great Leap, he concluded with this scatological flourish: "Comrades, your stomachs will feel much more comfortable if you move your bowels and break wind...