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...service in 1949, Scott enrolled in the University of Missouri as a journalism student. He had been writing since he was eight years old, and by the time he went into the Marines, his father says, he had "enough rejection slips from the Saturday Evening Post to paper the bathroom wall." That much writing on the wall convinced even Scott. Then, one day, he spotted a notice on the college bulletin board announcing auditions for The Winslow Boy. He bought a copy of the play, memorized every line of it, and won the lead...
...affected area stayed home on the first day schools reopened; some, including Charisse, agreed to return only if their parents drove them to and from school. Says Secretary Joyce Shahin of her seven-year-old son: "He has got very clingy-he wants me to sit in the bathroom and talk while he takes a bath, and he wants to sit on the same chair with me." Afflicted adults show extreme exhaustion, an unusual need for emotional support, and inability to sleep...
...usually non-partitioned domes, which makes them noisy to live in-but easy to heat and cool. Ordinary furniture looks awkward in domes: built for rectangular homes, familiar chairs and tables do not fit against curving walls (dome dwellers have already designed furniture that will). Bathrooms pose another problem. "You use the same kind of plumbing," says Kahn, "but it's difficult to get a shape that works with the rest of the geometry." For this reason, several builders have erected domes that are three-quarters or seven-eighths (instead of half) of a sphere. That enables the dome...
...importance level in the room is rather high, and the narcissism count is even higher (higher than in the dressing room at the Loeb?), and you are feeling fatter and sloppier by the second and wish you were hiding in your favorite chair in Ticknor Library or in a bathroom at Holyoke Center or at the Graduate Center even, really, anywhere, but here, on the slippery, basketball court surface of the Radcliffe Gym, pretending you're a dancer...
...thirteen-year-old boy sneeringly asked his Groton-educated older brother, "How did you like going to chapel six times a week and twice on Sunday and asking permission to go to the bathroom...