Our waiter could have been performing as the model for what a waiter should be. Several of his tables were filled and he was busy, but kept his eye on us (never hovering, never oversolicitous) and took care of things with a degree of style that I suspect was inborn rather than cultivated.

surmises of jealousy or of envy

Knot theory classifies the mappings of a circle into 3-space.

My freshman year, I cheered beside a guy with a huge Afro and Kanye glasses and a guy in a toga.