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Heather felt the minutes slip past her too fast to be exhilarated about finishing her rough draft. She was typing her own thesis onto the computer in Littauer's basement--doing that, she supposed, would allow her to type what would become a final draft and yet make revisions. The computer, moreover, automatically numbered footnotes and put them at the bottom of pages. Heather figured that since she had taken Nat Sci 110 as a freshman, she could breeze through the preliminaries of learning how to operate the text-editing language. And at five pages an hour, she figured...
...says the dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. "That and the beginning of spring give me energy that flows to my hair roots." Even before they noticed the sapphire-and-diamond "friendship ring" on Gouletas' finger last week, reporters were asking if a wedding was in the works. "A slip of the lip can sink a ship," replied Carey, "and I don't intend for my ship to sink." The lip slipped later in the week on the subject of U.S.-made automobiles. Disposable "Rleenex cars," he called them. Former Girlfriend and Ford Motor Heiress Anne Ford Uzielli would...
Weinberger: No, it just means that on the slip of paper that people fill out when they register they might give us some more useful information, like 'Where do we reach you in time of an emergency?' or 'What are some of your skills?' or 'What are some of your interests?' or a few more facts like that. Since you're going to all the trouble of getting people to sign up, it doesn't do very much good just to have the name and address. I think we need something a little more than is there now. But that...
...another front, Psychoanalyst Ludwig Eidelberg made Freud's work seem childishly simple when he suggested that a slip of the tongue involves the entire network of id, ego and superego. He offers the case of the young man who entered a restaurant with his girlfriend and ordered a room instead of a table. You probably think that you understand that error. But just listen to Eidelberg: "All the wishes connected with the word 'room' represented a countercathexis mobilized as a defense. The word 'table' had to be omitted, because it would have been used...
Still, beyond all this is another laugh entirely, that neither condemns, praises, ridicules nor conspires, but sees into the essential nature of a slip of the tongue and consequently sympathizes. After all, most human endeavor results in a slip of the something-the best-laid plans gone suddenly haywire by natural blunder: the chair, cake or painting that turns out not exactly as one imagined; the kiss or party that falls flat; the life that is not quite what one had in mind. Nothing is ever as dreamed...