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...makes the top; he's a hit. Yet security is fleeting, even for an idol, and the saga ends with the sad refrain...
Over the years, Pasternak has written countless poems "for the drawer" in hope of future publication, though he periodically weeds and destroys some of his backlog. Occasionally absent-minded in conversation (he sometimes lapses into a preoccupied refrain of "da, da, da, da, da"), Pasternak is methodical in his writing habits. He first puts a watch on his desk, draws a pencil from the box he keeps there, and writes in longhand, reusing every sheet of paper (once on each side for separate works): "It's not only economical, but it's more cozy. The paper...
Korns proposed the move mainly as a relief to scholarship students, who are allowed only $100 during the year for "incidentals" and thus must "either bankrupt themselves or refrain from having more than one date every three weeks," he explained in a Yardling editorial...
...wise surgeon," warned a wise 13th century surgeon, "will refrain from stealing while he is in attendance on a patient." Other maxims for medieval physicians, who found Hippocrates rather hoary: impress the patient by diagnosing his condition before examination, always tell relatives the case is very grave, assume that a fast pulse only means worry over your fee. Last week British physicians were chuckling over dozens of such memories, recalled in Call the Doctor, by Ernest S. Turner, a frequent Punch contributor whose previous social histories have deflated the egos of British reformers, admen and Blimps...
...good investment, tends to make the market a less realistic mirror of business conditions. "With capital gains," says Walter Maynard, senior partner of Shearson, Hammill & Co., "you are betting the certainty of a 25% loss v. a problematical gain. And with that certainty of a loss, investors will refrain from making a sale even while admitting that the price of a security is high enough for them...