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...another wall, a two-headed woman leaps through the air, with the head and neck of a white woman attached to the crown of her nappy-haired head. The delicate position of her arms and the grace of her ballet-like leap imply that she, like the waltzing couple, finds pride in her appearance. Perhaps, she is unaware of her second head. More likely, considering her posture, she is proud to have garnished a European head, and is unaware of her deformity. Even more disconcerting, perhaps she acknowledges her deformity, and considers it a small price...
...University Hall and the people there have been much nicer to deal with [than the House administration]. They have been much nicer to deal with [than the House administration]. They have been the saving grace," the senior co-director said...
...ornery philosopher Pete Carril. Princeton's current coach, Bill Carmody, apprenticed under Carril for 14 years. Carril saw the 94-ft. by 54-ft. hard court as a moral playground where the cardinal virtue was unselfishness. The embodiment of unselfishness was the assist, the small act of grace of giving up the ball to a teammate who has a better shot. Check out the box score of a Princeton game: the team gets two-thirds of its baskets off assists, a rarity in this era of run-and-gun shooters who have eyes only for the hoop...
...answer to that question is decidedly split. While Morrison herself possessed all the "grace, the dignity, and the intellectual depth" that Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West '74 ascribed to her in his dulcet introduction, Paradise as a novel is, almost unprecedently for the Nobel Laureate, less than wholly compelling...
Rather than accept their misfortune with sobriety and grace, both sought to overcome it illegitimately. That is to say, both broke the standards of their respective sports. That athletes would have such an urge is not surprising. That the domineering sense of compassion allowed them to indulge their urge is instructive. It seems that the last bastion of objective, fair standards and pure excellence is at last succumbing to the ubiquitous compassion of modern society. CSN should expect even more success...