31.   After years in the ruck of journalism, their lives in academe seem gracious and sensible.

32.   All they know is that their lives seem to have gotten a more complicated.

33.   But his life sometimes seemed as out of control as the characters that made his audiences roar.

34.   But if there are some people whose lives seem to flow out of their pedigrees, there are also people like Dick Parsons.

35.   But life always seemed to get in the way.

36.   But life did not seem to change very much for Klansmen like David Matthews.

37.   But life still seemed to mean something, Mrs. Layton said.

38.   But Mexico is one of the few places where my life seems to slow down, a feeling that bothers me at first but then seems completely natural.

39.   But something else is happening, and somehow life seems a little less ferocious than it did just a few short years ago.

40.   But outside those exclusive walls, it has a history of denying equal protection under the law and making life seem scary.