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Section Two stipulates that parents are responsible for keeping their children in school, and that if they allow them to be unlawfully absent more than seven days in any six month period, they may be fined...
...hands to shut out the noise of the crowd. Relaxed and confident, he now strolls around the floor between jumps, chatting with other athletes, leaning over the seats to sign autographs. "I don't let anything bother me any more, especially the fans," he says. "I'm absent from them. I used to really believe that they were all my friends, but I soon found out that they liked me only because I was winning...
Irrational parietal rules are not the only reason for discontent. For many, the Houses have become just dormitories and meal factories; there is little sense of community. Houses are too large, resident tutors too often just graduate students pursuing their doctorates in isolation and non-resident professors more absent than senators. Most important, there is little education conducted in the Houses. The opportunities presented by the tutorial system are insufficiently exploited...
...Shemansky rules her Lower East Side tenement to cruelly that "she thinks she's just." Zelo Shemansky counters his wife's attacks by going into fits, "twitching like a toilet chain." While balancing the Shemansky powers, crippled son Barish fiendishly maximizes tension and antagonism. Then there are the long-absent daughter, Yahina (another Ma in the making), her husband, Feivet, a deaf mute, and her son, Pildesh, who while urinating from a fourth floor window, tumbles out. The savior of this twisted family is old, orange-eyed. Vossen Gleich, with his lopsided chest ("one side sunk in, the other humped...
...goddess of love, is said to have first set foot on solid ground at Cyprus, but obviously she has not visited her favorite island in recent years. Last week hate again ruled Cyprus as an eruption of the old feud between Turk and Greek caused an estimated 200 casualties. Absent diplomats were hurriedly recalled to their posts in Ankara, Athens and London. Fortunately, neither Greece, Turkey nor Britain wanted the trouble to continue. Nor did bearded Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, or his Turkish Cypriot Vice President, Dr. Fazil Kuchuk...