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...contests than they had lost. There is as much truth as exaggeration in the statement that during these years the fourth floor of the IAB became a haven for weekend-knitters and others who sought the comforts of lightly soothing entertainment. All of the "ugly" elements of "professionalism" were absent; the shoving, crowded masses of basketball fans who spit, scream, swear, and elbow their team on to victory rarely climbed the four flights of stairs more than once...
...although it was a Harvard building that was seized, Radcliffe women were noticeably absent. Perhaps it was because it wasn't spring, or perhaps it was because the building itself was far away, even farther south than Mather House, so that most of the action seemed outside the spectrum of our lives. The Boston Globe gave the impression that 888's inhabitants were foul-mouthed harpies who were accosting straight women. There was no mention of the vitality or life of the place. The women inside were just not us, and we were a little afraid to soil our hands...
...orgasmic capacity--an intriguing correspondence which warrants much further research. The greater a woman's difficulty in reaching orgasm, the more consistently likely she was to be concerned about the "lack of dependability of love objects." The more likely she was, in particular, to have experienced in childhood an absent, undependable or distant father. Fisher could offer no real evidence as to what extent these attitudes were ineradicably formulated in early childhood, and to what extent they could be influenced by a woman's relationship with her sex partner...
...time the mistake was discovered it was too late to contact substitute officials, so both teams agreed to play the game with JV coach Bob Hart filling in for the absent referees...
...minded reformers either into disarray or scurrying for the center. By the end of his term, he had elicited a measure of respect from all segments of a Faculty that had deeply distrusted his predecessor, Franklin L. Ford. He restored a certain reverence for his office that had been absent for some time. Even his opponents on the Faculty capitulated out of respect for his skillfull blending of energy, manipulation and unorthodoxy...