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...Spiders Smell? Back in Brooklyn while Henry went off to Johns Hopkins (which had a rule preventing interns from marrying), Polly got a frantic call from Vermont's Bennington College. Could she start teaching genetics next Monday? Genetics was Greek to Polly, but she marched into class with the premise that "dogs have dogs, cats have cats, and you built it up from there...
...were a twerp." She also discovered that she "learned faster than those students, and they had higher IQs." She had learned the art of learning: finding the key questions that unlock big answers. Ever since, she has been known for giving students odd research problems (Can spiders smell?) that lead to revealing answers (yes, with their legs...
Niles cast his spell as much with his introductions and manner as with his singing. There is a bit of Barnum in him; no, a big hunk of Barnum. Woven in with this is a strain of the hillbilly preacher. And over these basic characteristics floats the unmistakable, delightful smell...
...Said Goulart. assuming the role of statesmanlike compromiser: "The political parties know, the Congressmen know, everybody knows that I incline more to unite than to divide. I prefer to pacify than to arouse hate. I prefer to harmonize than to stimulate resentments.'' And he added: "I can smell the people and I smell of the people. I assume the presidency with the responsibility of a man who understands reality...
...past 75: "I shall continue the practice until that final morning when, fittingly. I shall fall backward head over heels down the courthouse steps." He detested barking dogs and chewing gum,, once assaulted a quailing law clerk with: "Sonny! We have come to a parting of the ways. I smell Spearmint again." But in some rare areas his ignorance was monumental. "I don't know what Mickey Mantle is or does," he once complained...