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Baker's pedophile is so furtive that he's almost immobile, but we register the darting eyes under the bland, Mr. Rodgers-like façade, and as he waits for a little boy to eat a drugged tuna sandwich, we hold our breaths the way we did in Psycho when Norman Bates watched the car with the body of Marian Crane almost not sink into the swamp.
This past academic year, highlights have included the establishment of a Board of Visitors; the appointment of two new campus deans, Marian Pettengill at IU South Bend and Penny Cass at IU Kokomo; recognition of the Community Health Nursing Department by the American Public Health Association; sponsoring two nurse recipients for IU honorary degrees, Hildegard Peplau at IUPUI and Elizabeth Carnegie at IU Southeast; and celebrating the induction in 1993 and 1994 of four more faculty into the American Academy of Nursing.
Previously thought too holy for mortal use, once established, there was no stopping it: Marie; Mairi; Mair; Ria; Marise; Moira; Marietta; Marion (or Marian ).
And yet, as I think about Marian Anderson and about my fellow passengers and about the female bus driver, I feel hopeful.
I have recently seen assertions that the DAR excluded Marian Anderson from Constitution Hall because she wanted to sing on Easter Sunday, and not because she was "colored," as we used to say.