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Head women's cross country coach. Denis Cochran Fikes, agrees with McCarthy's assessment of her yet to come achievements. Most definitely she's going to go on to be better and better, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if she became a marathoner." He comments. "Her greatest asset is her endurance--she can maintain good speeds over very long periods of time...
...faults. The main galleries, with their rhetorically high ceilings and towering walls of bushhammered concrete ("soaring" is the requisite adjective here), completely dwarf the paintings, turning Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles into a little silvery postage stamp. Worse, no role is played by Canberra's one architectural asset, natural daylight. Without it, the paintings look embalmed. This accords with the programmatic opinions of one of the gallery's early advisers, the former American museum director James Johnson Sweeney, but it is a grave mistake...
...election year of a candidate trying to revive the old New Deal Coalition. He is the darling of the cosmopolitan liberal intellectuals--as shown this summer when the Village Voice all but deified him weekly. He has unanimous and enthusiastic labor support--in New York's very strong organizational asset. He has strong support from Black and Hispanic voters who know that they have nothing to gain from Lehrman's ledger-book legislation. And he has a clear edge among his own Catholic middle class...
...impose his politics or "progressive views" on them. For the meteorically successful Harvard gay rights movement, it may seem that a truly wonderful goal has been attained--this is the year that a gay student could be elected to a pivotal post without his gayness figuring as an asset or a liability. The chairman simply happens...
...President I needed a broader perspective. For the well-being of my own country, I wanted the Middle East region stable and at peace; I did not want to see Soviet influence expanded in the area. In its ability to help accomplish these purposes, Israel was a strategic asset...