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Morale, the stuff that holds a team together, is beginning to be a problem for Crimson coach John Yovicsin and Columbia mentor Buff Donelli. One more loss would be enough to put either squad into the lulled state of passive acceptance that is almost impossible to shake...
...movement is bound to generate a reaction-but where we are going to go, I am not willing to prophesy. What I see is a new concern with figure, and a movement toward a severe style." Last week, in sentences of 20th century hedging, Barr was busily trying to shake loose from the implications of his words...
...urbanization: "It is very important that we preserve the communities. In the village you're not just a part of the crowd, going to the theatre or whatever, anonymous; you can be a whole man....In my village if I saw someone ten times a day, we would shake hands ten times a day. If I came up to a man in the market, why he'd reach into his kalabash and draw out some palm wine; first we'd drink together and talk, then perhaps I'd buy something. This may be a slow way to build an economy...
...afloat in nervous perspiration. Red trembles and his eyes are alight with tears as, in the end, he inhales his grand ration of applause; and the people who swarm backstage for his autograph find an obliging man, usually dressed in an old kimono, whose lips quiver and whose hands shake...
...passage, Durrell preens so obviously that his arrogant virtuosity is amusing: "I question myself eagerly. Is this amusia, aphasia, agraphia, alexia. abulia? It is life.''* The narrator, a knockabout literary sort named Lawrence Lucifer, gloats over sex, happily flexes his ability to shock ("I am afraid to shake hands with him, for fear that the skin will slip the bony structure of the hand and come away. It would take so little to produce the skeleton from this debile bundle of meat...