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Luce spent the next seven years ensconced in all-male, all-white, overwhelmingly Protestant institutions of the American upper class: first Hotchkiss, then Yale (where he joined that bastion of the Establishment, Skull and Bones). Luce was active in student journalism in both schools--and in the process formed an intimate relationship with Briton Hadden, the classmate, friend and frequent rival with whom he would found TIME. Having encountered America first as an abstraction, Luce encountered it after 1913 as a member of a self-proclaimed enlightened elite, among boys and young men trained from an early age to think...
...achieved so much success in so little time because sports represent the last bastion of pure excellence in our leveling, democratic society. Only in sports does sheer talent and desire determine the outcome. Athletes are the only persons left in America judged, praised, and blamed strictly on their actions and their ability, not their race, sex, class, or any other such nonsense from the smorgasbord of identity...
...grace, both sought to overcome it illegitimately. That is to say, both broke the standards of their respective sports. That athletes would have such an urge is not surprising. That the domineering sense of compassion allowed them to indulge their urge is instructive. It seems that the last bastion of objective, fair standards and pure excellence is at last succumbing to the ubiquitous compassion of modern society. CSN should expect even more success...
...week, PBS broadcast a four-and-a-half-hour documentary on Reagan. And, to complement your reading of Dinesh D'Souza's recently-published book Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, Reagan's official biography will be released next fall. Even The New Yorker, that bastion of liberal snootiness, recently published an article titled "A Celebration of Reagan...
...Tannen would call "troubles talk," and what most of us fondly refer to as "venting." Even while attending the world's greatest university and being offered so many options and opportunities in every direction, many of us remain dissatisfied. Most Americans would give their right arms to enter this bastion of our misery...