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...with opponents saying that even 250 responses might not be enough to ensure statistical credibility, Driskell and council Vice President John A. Burton '01 have been forced into damage control mode--a familiar position...
Driskell and Burton had high hopes for their top campaign promise--conducting a survey to diagnose student concerns...
Council Treasurer Sterling P. A. Darling '01 was even able to find some humor in the rocky start to the semester caused by the impeachment of Council Vice President John A. Burton '01. When a council member wondered about the origins of the Star Market shopping cart, Darling--who sponsored the petition to impeach Burton for improperly using a student group's buttons in his campaign--had a quick answer...
...actuality of Egyptian history, Cleopatra was never so violet-eyed and opulently creamy. In American popular culture, just emerging from the Eisenhower '50s, such gaudy shamelessness was still a surprise. Taylor evicted her husband Eddie Fisher, and Burton cashiered his wife Sybil. The Queen of the Nile and the Prince of Denmark fell into each other's boozy, lascivious arms and set off on a saga of extravagant narcissism that became a celebrity contribution to '60s excess--except that it had no redeeming social value. As the civil rights movement marched, and Vietnam tore America apart, and Presidents were assassinated...
High-spirited decadence, a conspicuous consumption of beauty and talent. Elizabeth and Richard were Scott and Zelda. They divorced, remarried each other, divorced again. Burton made a procession of increasingly awful movies and finally died, at 58, of his exhaustingly bad habits...