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Apparently, most of the players prefer to play three yards and a cloud of dust, and are simply unable to comprehend, let alone execute, Restic's shifts, reshifts, and counter-shifts. As a result, they refused to practice under Restic, and demanded a coach whose favorite plays were the Statue of Liberty and "everybody out, hit the open...
...poltical and ethnic militancy to a great university is that they distort the quality of those delicate relationships and sensibilities that sustain a great university. Indeed, those who adopt militancy as a style of behavior within a university do so precisely because they, for whatever reasons, no longer comprehend the behavioral requisites of a great university. Thus for them a new raison d'etre becomes imperative: the logic of militant confrontation runs its civility-destroying course...
...talk to her at that time. On September 11th, your reporter called and said she wanted to talk about Harvard's plans for a program in Modern Greek studies; I replied (she may recall that I had to repeat the same sentence twice since she did not appear to comprehend it on the first hearing) that in view of the fact that she had already spoken with President Bok about this I did not feel that I had anything to add to what he might have told you; and that was the extent of our conversation. Would you claim that...
Full perfume of the swamp, indeed. Whether a scholar who writes in so deep a shade of purple can even comprehend shame is uncertain. Yet Wolfs conclusion has some merit. Stoker, who was secretary to the actor Sir Henry Irving, shrewdly swotted Transylvanian geography and vampire lore at the British Museum reading room. His gleanings provided a European psychohistory before the term was coined, covering half-remembered terrors with gothic cobwebs. Stoker wrote several other romances of no particular power, but in Dracula he managed to create a classic, forever stalking his readers when their moral and rational defenses...
There are substantial problems for Pelé and his sport to overcome. The game lacks the orchestrated tactics of football, the rapid-fire scoring of basketball and the internal rhythm of baseball. More important, it suffers from the fact that the majority of Americans do not comprehend and appreciate the game's nuances. But Americans are rapidly learning to appreciate Pelé. In his second game, the superstar drew a capacity crowd of 22,500 to New York City's bush-league Downing Stadium to see the Cosmos beat the Toronto Metros, 2-0. In Boston, at week...