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...genteel masculinity. As a gift, Paper Lion was a way a father could say "yes" to his son's interest in pro football and its heroes of incredible size and strength, competing at a level unimaginable for ordinary men--and "yes" to his son's desire to be Bart Starr or Mean Joe Greene, tough, hard-bitten, or just awesomely good. But giving Paper Lion was also a way of saying, "well, we're not really like that, we're really more like George Plimpton, bumbling and weak by comparison, but that's okay...
...Bart Naylor '78 his thesis research, studying the neurological impulses of frogs, is "as testing ground to see it I'm really into that sort of thing." He says that although his topic "sounds peculiar, and like something you wouldn't tell you kids about," his thesis may add to the general knowledge of the field, while many social science theses "won't be read by anybody outside the student and the thesis readers" who grade the work...
...general, mellifluous names tend to have passive or negative meanings, and the macho names tend to sound like sharp, short yelps (Bart, Kent, Mac, Matt, Bill, Nate). Despite Bogart, Humphrey retains its depressing image ("terribly unpopular, sedentary"), but Sophia Loren has influenced her first name, which now means "a bombshell." Gina, Brian and Douglas are among the most dynamic and positive names...
...work with musicians. He was an early promoter of the LP and of original cast albums of shows like South Pacific and My Fair Lady; he had talked CBS into backing Lady. In developing the Columbia Masterworks series of classical music, he included contemporary composers: Prokofiev, Schönberg, Bartók -and Lieberson...
...eager to discover what their heroes were up to these days. ELP, as they are also known, responded by offering a generous sampling from their new double LP album Works, Volume 1. That included nothing less than a full-fledged Piano Concerto No. 1 by Emerson, which sounded more Bartók than rock 'n' roll...