Word: yawned
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...says that he enjoys getting notes from girls more than he does from boys because they are signed "Love." One senior professor, who laments the loss of "male fellowship," is still bluntly prejudiced. "Women may make a fractional contribution to an undergraduate lecture," he concedes. "They don't yawn as much...
...always reassured me as I yawn through classes and sleep through lectures to realize that professors aren't just sentenced to their teaching. Many do things on the outside, Marty Peretz has followed a successful career sinking money into losing presidential campaigns. A whole array of professors have proved themselves as "advisors" in Washington and John Finley has the A.D. Club. But little did I expect that Assistant Professor Donald D. Bacon, whose sinisterly analytical lectures scared me away from his American Drama: Studies in the Dramatic Imagination last fall, should direct an entertaining play at a time...
After the diving, which brought most of the crowd to its feet, probably to stretch or yawn a bit, the meet took yet another bizarre turn. Fred Mitchell, the sophomore sensation, resting up for a big effort in the 100 yd. freestyle took the starting blocks, and proceeded to false start twice. Rather puzzled, he took the blocks for a third time, only to realize that he had been disqualified...
...subject, an unhappy childhood, is a certified Freudian yawn, but she plays it for funny and painful surprises. More like Little Lulu than Little Nell, her 10-year-old heroine Lucia refuses to let grownups run and ruin her life. When her parents fight, and Lucia is sent to live with a saurian grandmother in Virginia, she battles the old monster to a standstill. "You're a big mean bug," she screams, "and I sink your mean mud head about ten million feet into the ground!" Then with all her force she struggles to reconstitute the family she needs...
...seems almost sacrilegious to yawn at Rome, even in the secular sense. The city is still overwhelmingly attractive, indeed seductive: an Eternal City, according to the cliché, insinuating its spirit of timelessness into those who visit it. That attribute may be unfortunate for Roman Catholic churchmen. For while one can stand in Rome, innocently confident that the Catholic world still spins around the Vatican in reverent orbit, the facts are different. There are times when the center cannot hold, as Yeats said. Most especially it cannot hold when it is the center of an institution that fails to comprehend...