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Occasionally when time and a suitable request coincide, she reverts to the days when she pursued a semi-serious degree as an academic at Radcliffe (studying under Perry Miller and completing all the Ph.D. Requirements but a thesis), and writes a piece of critical analysis. Though Survival, a collection of critical essays, met a good reception, she says she never felt any particular fondness for the form and, even at Radcliffe, felt equally smug, and guilty for listening to junior faculty's political woes "and secretly knowing I would never have to cope with...
...with equal vitriol at the designed hitter rule, modern art, and new cars with gaudy interior design. The admiration he expressed for Lech Walesa is no more important than his celebration of the ringing of bells (church, not door or phone), the National Cathedral, the Chicago Cubs, and the semi-colon...
...want to run the Marathon." Joanne said wistfully to me yesterday as we headed out for out daily four-mile run-a ritual we have followed semi-faithfully, since the spring of freshman year...
After listening to marathon horror stories, massaging a cramped and semi-comatose roommate, and knowing the condition of my heart after a very leisurely short run, my immediate leaning is to concede defeat in next year's marathon right now and leave the crazy race to the kinds of people who climb Mt. Everest just because it exists...
...Saturday, I arrived at the rink, and outside the main entrance, a girl in a blue coat (I still can't figure that out) was hawking her wares, which turned out to be information sheets on pre-arranged charter fights to Providence for the NCAA semi-finals and finals the following weekend. In big letters at the top they said. "HURRY--FILLING FAST...