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...Extremes of Emotion. If interviewers complement you, don't jump into their arms in joy. If interviewers tell jokes, don't laugh so hard that you break furniture in the office. If interviewers get sentimental, don't cry so much you need to wipe your nose on your clothes...
...classes with Jon this semester, so I got to spend reading period trapped in the library with him. Actually, the libraries. You see, Jon needs to change his study atmosphere frequently in order to maintain the proper psychological outlook towards his work. So I got to watch him wipe sweat off his over-furrowed brow and make funny gurgling noises in Adams House Library, Quincy House Library, Lamont Library, Cabot Library and the Kennedy School Library. Not to mention the dining halls, our common room...
...whites are consciously plotting black extermination. Some, like the Rev. Cecil Williams of San Francisco's Glide United Methodist Memorial Church, pin the drug epidemic on "a group of whites somewhere" who think blacks are getting too much political power. Others charge that the U.S. Government developed AIDS to wipe out blacks, testing it on homosexuals before unleashing it in the ghetto. More widespread is the view, put forth by Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, that genocide will inevitably occur because the U.S. Government is not doing enough to stanch the flow of drugs. Says Lowery...
...also held a lesson for an America plunged into hatred and despair by the Civil War. The morning sun rises through the plume of smoke and ash, irresistibly, its disk made lurid but not extinguished by the subterranean fires, its light mirrored in a tranquil lake. Catastrophe will not wipe out nature; in the foreground of the volcanic plain, new plants spring to life. This, as the art historian David C. Huntington once remarked, is about as close as American painting in the Civil War period ever came to the Battle Hymn of the Republic or the Gettysburg Address...
...humane response to such pathetic displays of academic insecurity is to wipe their foaming mouths and then recommend professional help...