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They also don't seem to mind reliving events that couldn't have been much fun in undergraduate days. A crowded, brightly-lit dance in Memorial Hall Sunday night featured a third-rate swing band and bore a resemblance to an awkward freshman mixer. But for these post-freshmen, having to line up, steer-like, in black tie and gowns to board yellow school buses to take them to the Park Plaza was probably made less noxious by the sign in one of the bus windows: "Very Important People...
...pantaloons the ART regulars offer a particularly cohesive version of their usual fine teamwork. Miller's intelligent strategy is to differentiate the characters as sharply as possible, giving each a few eccentricities pronounced enough for easy reference. The servants in particular benefit from the chance to present more than awkward carbon copies of the principals: John Bottoms as Mr. Snake displays: diabolical shuffle and sneer, while the faithful retainer Rowley (Richard Spore) has been so sharply characterized--his hands, legs, voice and cane tremble constantly--that at times he is barely comprehensible...
...recent focus on the formal complaint procedures has obscured it seems to me a fact about my work that might be worth stating here. Most of the students who talk to me about instructional relationships made awkward by considerations of sex do not want to lodge formal complaints. Most come to me at or near the end of the term in which their situation became troubling and the most desirable goal is to leave it behind them without suffering adverse consequences such as a poor grade. In such cases, students may want advice rather than intervention. For example, they...
...short I believe we may reasonably expect some changes to occur in thinking about the board issue of sexual harassment. Insofar as naivete or thoughtlessness is to blame for the development of awkward situations we may look forward to some improvement. But there are certain things which my experience in my current role has persuaded me are likely to be pervasive features of the landscape. It will doubtless sound terribly corny and perhaps cynical to wager that human and perhaps cynical to wager that human nature will remain unchanged. But I believe it is realistic to predict that instructors...
...author to hand in a typewritten book to his publisher. Of his Remington, Twain wrote: "It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around." Twain also began the practice of double-spacing manuscripts, thus providing room for editors ever since to fill the margins with the words "awkward" and "Don't get this...