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...envy the janitor or the gallery cat that might slip in after the crowds disperse to view this man's work...
...there could still be no doubt that the U.S. Government, acting courageously and cannily, had forced Russia's Khrushchev to back away from his Cuban foray. But as the days went by, there was the feeling that the U.S. might also be letting great gains for freedom slip away...
...says Dr. Mayerson, because in the mammal, nature evolved a closed, high-pressure blood-circulating system with conduits of diminishing thickness carrying blood and oxygen to thin-walled capillaries. "But here, nature ran into a snag: the high pressure made the capillaries leaky." Even the large molecules of proteins slip through delicate capillaries. Nature had to invent a collection and drainage system so that whatever Leaked into the tissue spaces around the capillaries could be picked up and put back into circulation in the bloodstream. Nature's solution to the problem was the lymphatic system...
...strident tones of Gaullist rhetoric must inevitably slip out of the pronouncements of the titans of the Fifth Republic as a consequence of recent events; to be replaced by the more familiar, if less exalted, language of partisan politics. De Gaulle's "French nation," united behind its leader and scorning the divisive and dilatory representative mechanism, has disappeared, to be replaced by the more familiar atomistic Frenchman, who does not prize unity above all things, nor value efficiency most highly. The vote in Sunday's referendum was, in fact, a vote against government by referendum...
Like Exeter's Principal William Gurdon Saltonstall, whom he calls "a fast friend and a mortal competitor," Kemper is the first to ask whether his school is using its wealth wisely. The last thing he wants Andover to be is a shoehorn to slip grade-getters into prestige colleges. He worries about the lucky-me attitude that afflicts many Andover boys. He wonders how to teach them a sense of humanity and public service. He wants the school to serve. "We should be identified with public schools," he says. "Our job is to be available to anyone who wants...