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...Stanley, the modern conservative is as complacent as the liberal. "This country is full of the wrong kind of conservative," he charged. "They're country-club types willing to turn their sons over to the local institution for nine months of the year and to put up with Santa Claus Johnson and Hubert the Hump...
...think small--the whole community could join in to dramatize local events. The week of the Yale game, the Cambridge police might be togged out in face-masks and moleskins. Or in caps and gowns, during Commencement week. Not to forget Santa Claus, come Christmastime. In early November, of course...
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...Gurney and Bob Bondurant saved a scrap of prestige for the U.S., placing fourth overall and winning the grand-touring championship in a Ford-powered A. C. Cobra. But Ferraris finished one-two-three, giving old Enzo Ferrari a record fifth straight Le Mans victory. >Santa Claus: the l½-mile Irish Sweeps Derby by a lazy-loping four lengths, making him the first horse in history to capture both the English and Irish Derbies; in Curragh, Ireland. A 4-7 favorite, the three-year-old colt watched the rest of the field run away at the gate, was third...
...Santa Claus of loneliness" was W. H. Auden's tag for his fellow poet, Rainer Maria Rilke. Rilke did not look like Santa Claus-more like the man who shot him. Beneath a nobly domed forehead, pale eyes glared out from a meanly featured face. This repellent countenance would on rare occasions be relieved by an unpleasant smile. Yet for all his unprepossessing appearance, he had the pride of Lucifer himself. He insisted on his aristocratic descent...