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...lesson to be learned from these examples is that the most precious thing the teaching fellow possesses is his independence. That's a commodity which is easy to forego. If he finds himself spending all his section time working problem sets step-for-step, he's become another button on the student's calculators. If he finds himself being asked to spend sections re-delivering the professor's last lecture, he has become a phonograph...
Touring underground defense facilities and meeting generals who "had the authority to push the red button and hit Moscow" has made a deep impression on Hallice. As he says, "Some of the things I've seen would frighten...
...Clarkson power play is a dangerous proposition, almost as dangerous as Proposition 2 1/2. When the Golden Knights (now 16-4-1, second in the ECAC) have a man up, the goal judge puts his finger on the button. Sure enough, at 19:37, Clarkson forward Bruce McDonough took passes from Bryan (Leave it to Beaver) Cleaver and Mike Prestidge and stuffed the puck past Lau for the game-winner...
...Inauguration, Reagan will be the first President since J.F.K. to wear formal morning attire. The selection, made by Reagan himself: an Italian-style black jacket of barathea cloth and striped gray woolen trousers with a three-button dove-gray vest, an outfit for which Reagan's Beverly Hills tailor, Frank Mariani, will charge him $1,250. Average rental price of a similar suit for Washington dignitaries: $42. The new President has no head for toppers. Nancy has a new mink in the closet, but may forgo it in favor of a Republican cloth coat. The Reagans' attire will...
...have neither the bods nor the boodle to dress in the presidential fashion. Nor does White House style necessarily impress the populace. No one stormed the stores for Jimmy Carter's cardigans or Lyndon Johnson's baggy pants. On the other hand, Jack Kennedy's two-button suits (whose looser lines he adopted to disguise the back brace he often had to wear) set a fashion for two decades. Jackie's Halston-designed pillbox hats were as common as canapes at cocktail parties of the '60s. If the Reagan look does not incite the masses...