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...throes of freshman paranoia, I could not convince myself that it was I, and not my father's "position," who was responsible for the thick envelope on April 16, 1972. It helped of course to have a roommate from High Point, North Carolina who was experiencing the similar agonies of "geographical distribution," it all seemed worth it, though, when spring came and the housing situation looked bad. I thought for sure that with a little string pulling ("Master's choice" was still barely alive) I could beat the odds and get into my first choice House. I experienced a sense...
...point is that B.F. Skinner is not the thick-skinned man he tends to portray. According to his own principles, he is the man he was reinforced to be--a man who so desperately tried to control what was "right" for himself that he rejected criticism and avoided understanding why others thought him wrong. But as he writes his autobiography in the early hours of the morning--going over his notebooks and immersing himself in his past--Skinner will either have to fight again all the old battles, or else begin to re-evaluate his ideas and himself in relative...
...just one of these occasions, late in February, that the letter came. It was on cream-colored stationery--quite thick and impressive looking--with "The White House" embossed in small, plain letters on the flap. Walter had received no mail in the past three months, except a foreclosure notice from his bank and a curt note from the finance company telling him his 1959 Chevy had been repossessed. Walter was, needless to say, excited. He carefully ripped off the end of the envelope, pulled out the letter and read...
This unaccountability of authority hits home even with myopic Harvard students, because it's easy to see the reams of paper and type, telephone-directories-thick, that form the wall between Harvard authority and students...
...Kill client can take his choice of lemon cream, chocolate cream, banana cream and lemon meringue (the hardest to remove) pies, all of which emanate from a Manhattan bakery that, says Weiner, produces edible missiles of "just the right consistency-heavy and thick. Aerodynamically they are perfect...