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...both sides would be well advised to lighten up. The conservatives ought to realize that criticisms of the great books approach to learning do not amount to totalitarianism. And the advocates of multiculturalism need to regain the sense of humor that enabled their predecessors in the struggle to coin the term P.C. years ago -- not in arrogance but in self-mockery...
...call me native--the ones who sneer at the demonstrators who say "Troops Home Now," those "realists" who know so much better--have already ignored what I have had to say about this in the past. Long before the phrase "New World Order" had once again become common coin, I picked it out as the vanguard of post-modern imperialism, a foreign policy that would be profoundly undemocratic--the Bush Doctrine. So much for political analysis...
...dapper widower, a catch for the golden girls of West Palm Beach, Fla. He spent part of his winters there. The rest of the year he lived in a modest Elizabeth, N.J., apartment where he washed his own socks and underwear in the bathroom sink rather than use the coin-operated laundry in the basement...
Even the players who assembled for the coin flip symbolized the up-and-down Harvard season of tough defense and injury-plagued offense. Out to midfield went Joe Gordian--the superstar linebacker who broke the Crimson single-season sack record--and Captain Tom Callahan--the much-heralded offensive tackle who missed Harvard's last eight games with a bad back...
...best, Metropolitan is a clever comedy of manners in the best Austen tradition. Characters accuse each other of being "public transportation snobs." They coin terms like "urban haute bourgeoisie" to describe themselves. They ponder the lengthy duration of preppy adolesence, and play bridge...