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...means Ivy League football. First of all, don't sneer. You may have heard (if you care at all about these matters) that Ivy League football is the preoccupation of 135-pound weaklings who would like nothing better than to get back to their physics homework. But while it ain't the Big 10, football among the Ivies can be every bit as exciting and almost as well-played. The rivalries are ancient (they don't call it The Game for nothing), the scores close, and the level of play generally impressive...
...Advertisements for Myself. In any case, windy self-advertisement became more and more popular in the years that followed. Said John Lennon at the peak of the Beatles' popularity: "We're more popular than Jesus Christ now." Said Heavyweight Boxer Muhammad Ali, in a typical flight: "It ain't no accident that I'm the greatest man in the world at this time in history." The same period at last produced an intellectual model for publicly saluting the self: Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz's autobiographical book Making It. Wrote Podhoretz: "I looked upon those...
...during his first campaign for the Senate, his opponent said scornfully in a debate: "This man has never worked a day in his life!" Kennedy says that the next morning as he was shaking hands at a factory gate, one worker leaned toward him and confided, "You ain't missed a goddamned thing...
...idea for a terrific film--a gut-wrenching Vietnam drama. The Deer Hunter. A hot idea, Vietnam laced with contemporary American pop romanticism. The Vietnam War the way Bruce Springsteen would probably sing about it. Workin' class guys, they go and they fight for their country, 'cause their country ain't so great, you know--it's real bad sometimes--but they go anyway, 'cause it's their country and they're men. So you get tortured in P.O.W. camps and one of your buddies dies and the other loses his legs, but you fought hard--for what...
...post-season play goes, the best you can say is that the odds aren't good. Hey, Harvard is perfectly capable of sweeping Dartmouth this weekend and taking three from Army and Cornell next weekend, but unless Yale and Navy both lose two, it ain't gonna matter. And Yale and Navy just won't both lose...