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Since May, District 65 has shown itself adept at associating the union with issues at the Med School, and has put the University in an awkward position as a result...
...which curtains have somehow been hung). In the end he walks slowly into a void. She is left, head bowed, her hand cupping her chin. Both dancers give bold performances. One expects Von Aroldingen to be Balanchine's perfectly tuned instrument. Lüders, an elusive and sometimes awkward presence, has his best role...
...THAT QUALITY, Mondale was sharply contrasted with his fellow Minnesotan and erst-while mentor, Hubert Humphrey. Mondale entered politics at the grassroots in the sometimes powerful, often self-destructive Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFL) in Minnesota. It was in the DFL that Mondale first linked up with Humphrey. His awkward, sometimes competitive relationship with the fiery liberal was one of the most complicated aspects of his complicated personality...
Another goal of the Iowa program is to combat what the institute calls the "battered writer syndrome," i.e., student papers that are slashed with red pencil in the margins-awk for awkward phrase, dangle for dangling participles and modifiers-without any comments on substance. Says Iowa's David Hamilton: "Once you and the writer agree on what he is trying to say, then you can come to agreement about how to put it into form...
Kevin L. Porter '82, another Leverett resident, said yesterday, "The House really needs the money for important social functions, and though the method is awkward, I'll gladly support them...