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...little more exciting than a trip on the roller coaster at Revere--the speed, twists, and turns are even less threatening. The only distinguishing feature is the pleasure, If such it be, of exposing all the most valued parts of the anatomy to fracture and contusion, subject to the whim, not of some human opponent, as in the great game of football, but of Newton's three laws. There is a savage pleasure in kicking the opposing tackle in the face, but one can only metaphorically spit in the eye of the law of gravity...
When Nadejda heard her first Tchaikovsky music she liked it so much she gave the composer a commission to write something for her. Soon they were in frequent and increasingly intimate correspondence. Nadejda had 12 children and was very much the head of her family. She had a whim of iron, and it was her strongest whim never to appear in public, never to be at home to anyone but her own kin (Rubinstein was apparently the lone exception). As her epistolary friendship with Tchaikovsky grew, her commissions got more munificent, her language ever more affectionate, until finally...
...implications. The effect of the replacement of Dr. Glenn Frank by another man of liberal tendencies might cause no great effect on the educational life of the state university but the establishment of precedent by the displacement of a liberal president of a supposedly-liberal university through the whim of the supposedly-progressive governor of that state would be a telling blow to educational freedom in America...
...championing of Lincoln in the face of some of the Democrats in her own family was partly a childish whim, partly an indefinable urge to help the under...
...examinations are to be locked in a vault for a year or two and then thrown away, attention is focused on the chaos that rules the University's blue book policy. Both in general courses and in special examinations of this sort, the student is left entirely to the whim of the instructor as to whether he sees his work again or not. For though some teachers are willing to hand back and discuss their students' papers, the average undergraduate has too often been forced to look on examinations as ancient history as soon as the proctor collects them...