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...gymnastics, squash, swimming, track, and hockey. But while the level of quality play has improved, the importance of Ivy play has proportionally declined. The football league deserves a lot of credit, therefore, for resisting the temptation toward national success in favor of weekly competitiveness, and this writer can only applaud the well-balanced mediocrity of the season...
...play is Jane's description of a production of Peter Pan she attended as a child (or was it a dream?), in which the alligator is real, and Wendy keeps getting fatter until she has to be helped around, and Tinkerbelle really dies, because the audience doesn't applaud loud enough when Peter Pan asks them to clap to show they believe in fairies. The play asks: is the fairy real? Does Jane believe in fairies? Should...
...demonstrator is Hickman, and when his fellow soldiers applaud, the poor fool looks happy...
...proposals: "This has electrified the nation." It had obviously electrified Nixon too. Before settling into San Clemente for a rest, he spent the rest of the week barnstorming the U.S. with the fervor of a newly sawdusted evangelist. He had the Knights of Columbus standing on their chairs to applaud him in New York. In Springfield, Ill., Nixon invoked "Lincoln's legacy." America, said the President, needs sacrifice and competition: "We can at this point in our history nobly save, or meanly lose, man's last best hope." Nixon capped his week with a gesture of reconciliation toward the nation...
Even the President's persistent detractors seemed impressed. "We applaud the scope and daring of his effort to bring inflation under control and to get the economy off and running," said the New York Times. On inflation and the balance of payments, observed the Washington Post, "the President has probably chosen the course of action most likely to be effective...