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...fraction of a second or two kind of distorted things. Everything else was superb." Indeed, Ford went out of his way to reassure Californians that he did not hold the Fromme episode against them. "I wouldn't under any circumstances let one individual's effort undercut the warmth of what we felt in California...
...they knew how to relate to other women as friends, and because their presence as role models ("successful women") was often comforting. One proctor was a transactional analyst, another was breezing through Harvard Business School, another was at the Law School and loving it. Their proctees liked the maternal warmth and easygoing support. One freshwoman from Canaday said, "My proctor had just graduated from Radcliffe two years before, and she was very cynical about Harvard men. When we felt rejected and lonely she'd cheer us up with her own combination of feminism and experience. She did for us what...
...round Wagnerian style. Where his touch left off, Conductor Henry Holt's picked up. The Vienna-born, Los Angeles-reared Holt, 41, has been the Seattle Opera's music director for nine years. His Wagner may lack Sir Georg Solti's dynamism. But it has warmth, coherence and authority...
...trouble was, she did love Gerald; and this longing for him, for his attention and has notice, the need to be the one who sustained and comforted him, who connected him with the earth, who held him steady in her common sense and her warmth--this need drained her of the initiative she would have needed to be a leader of a commune. She wanted no more than to be the leader of the commune's woman...
...warmth of their welcome will certainly reassure Vietnamese doctors about their new homeland. But the refugees must still surmount some major obstacles before they can practice their profession. Like other foreign-trained physicians-who now constitute more than one-fifth of the 300,000 doctors practicing in the U.S.-the Vietnamese must pass the stiff requirements of the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), which tests both their command of English and knowledge of clinical medicine. Last winter only 7,000 of the 19,000 foreign doctors who took the exams managed to pass. Those...