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...mistakes of inexperience that benefited Massachusetts occasionally reared their illegitimate heads today, but he last quarter march, and the tenacity and depth of the line proved that jokes about the present team, like tonight's homecoming festivities are liable to fall very flat. No more than he should bemoan the Massachusetts loss should the student enter the Stadium from now on expecting a ready-made victory. This team may still lose games, but in the process it is going to play very exciting, and at times equally good football...
Debussy's singers have no arias-they sing as naturally as if speaking-while the orchestra sweeps along in the major role. Unlike Wagner's characters, Debussy's do not bemoan their fates; they simply submit to them. Nor is there any Wagnerian bellowing. Where Tristan shouts "Isolde! Geliebte!" at the top of his lungs, with the orchestra going full out, Pelléas whispers "Je t'aime...
Unwittingly, his new wife saddled him with a crew of relatives who abused his generosity and lived a life of deadbeat ease. But it never seemed to occur to Ed Ruffin to bemoan his fate, take to hard drinking, or quit on life in any of the other established fashions. To the Negroes on his plantation he became "Mr. Ed," a man of justice. To the women of his family he spelled security without servility. In a sense, he has given his life for his family and friends, yet it is only on the day of his death that...
There is no use for us who are emotionally committed to public schools as schools for all to denounce or bemoan the growth of private schools. The founding of a new independent school in a locality is a challenge to those connected with public education. Granted the "snob aspect" of some of these new independent schools, nevertheless, I feel sure in many cases they would never have come into existence if the management of the local high schools had been wiser. Education is a social process. This is a free country and people will not be pushed around by educators...
Among ourselves we bemoan local politics, and at taxpaying time our concerted howl can be heard from here to there, when in outrage we maintain that we have higher taxes than anybody else anywhere-and why not with the new school and hospital? But when we are attacked by an outsider, we are one cohesive family, and the aggressor had better choose his weapons...