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Bouncing Quarter. In part, the military schools are victims of a bum rap; they have never been major training centers for the armed forces-though the Defense Department dutifully provides support for their military programs. Instead, their self-declared aim was to produce gentlemen. "We have always maintained that the military discipline provided the finest possible supplement to one's preparation for college and the challenges of life," the Kentucky Military Institute wrote its alumni before it became secularized as the Kentucky Academy. "Unfortunately, each year fewer people seem to accept this premise." Frank Miller, an official with...
Neighborhood baseball was once a game that kids played with a borrowed mitt, perhaps, and often in tattered jeans and torn tennis shoes. It was one of America's summertime delights, pursued in high spirits. There might be a hassle or two over a bum call at first base, but a boy who dropped a pop fly suffered only the personal agony of embarrassment. Now, as highly organized Little League baseball, it is all too often a grim and tidily uniformed surrogate competition for adults, in which the stakes are parental egos and junior's gaffe becomes...
...picture that won my heart was the picture of Tricia and her father at the baseball game. How typically American. She, like any other average kid, seemed to be yelling at the umpire, "Throw the bum out!" That one picture has made me change my way of thinking. It made me realize that the Nixons are really no different from the rest...
...pressure has crushed many war heroes. World War II Flying Ace "Pappy" Boyington returned to take to the bottle, fall into debt and observe bitterly: "Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum." Marine Ira Hayes, one of the idolized flag raisers at Iwo Jima, died at 32 in a drunken stupor, frozen in the wintry outdoors of an Indian reservation. Similar strains tear at relatively unknown Congressional Medal of Honor winners as their wartime exploits dog them. Marine Johnny Basilone, decorated for bravery at Guadalcanal, was obsessed with the notion that someone else had done...
...want to be an artist, you risk falling on your face. I live near the Bowery. Between the artist and the bum, there is little difference...