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...quotes from Steven Keesling's book on crew, "The Shell Game": "A good coxswain has audacity, a lot of audacity." Mahony says, "I think that sums it up pretty well...
...June, 1973, President Bok's Committee on the Practice of the Arts dropped a bomb-shell on a long-standing Harvard tradition. In its "Statement of policy," the six-professor committee wrote...
...Will, the blind boarder so afraid of pity he covers himself with a brittle shellac of sarcasm, slowly comes out of his shell in the warm atmosphere of the Spaulding's farm. One of the most effective scenes comes when he and Possom, Edna's young daughter, stand outside a room in which Frank, her brother, is "getting a licking." Terrified by the sounds of whipping within, Possom quietly slips her hand into Mr. Will's. The simple gesture and the expression of bewilderment and joy that slowly spreads across Mr. Will's face convey a host of emotions...
Part of the dead weight on the Politburo is the remorselessly accumulating array of Soviet internal problems, ranging from agricultural failure to shrinking productivity to endemic corruption. Recent experience has been that East-West tensions fester when the Soviet leadership withdraws into a shell. The sight of Andrei Gromyko's familiar face in the U.S. may be a signal that the Kremlin is aware of the need for a new and healthier equilibrium...
...does play the part. At times, in fact, he flirts with overplaying it, right up to the tortoise-shell handle of his antique...