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...observation would do nicely, since the sight of mingling, embracing athletes at the close of the Games is characteristic of nothing in the world or in the Games themselves but momentary (and partly ceremonial) good nature. Observers of the sporting life, like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, had a dimmer view of the Games. Orwell called them "war minus the shooting." The connection with war has always been up front. Coubertin, who argued for French colonialism as ardently as he did for reviving the Olympics, admired the relationship between British colonialism and sports in the public schools. Every Etonian knows...
...year started brightly for the people in charge of the controversial Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) but proceeded to get dimmer and dimmer...
Coach Joe Bernal's squad contains Many freshman swimmers Some stand out like shining stars, And others glimmer dimmer...
...then start the process over again. As we enter the 1980s, with near-unanimous predictions of continued economic sluggishness and decreased support for the arts, creativity will be in high demand; artists around the world will have to meet that challenge or face the prospect of achievements even dimmer than those of the decade just past. Americans in the '70s clearly demonstrated that they value the arts and are willing to patronize them; it is our duty to provide the best we are capable of producing. Depending on our response, the artless society George Orwell predicted in 1984 could come...
...raising the prices of their elegant colonial houses once again after a prolonged slump. One example: a $50,000 house in the Salisbury suburb of Highlands, whose value had dropped to $30,000 within the past year, is now selling for $60,000. But some whites take a dimmer view of the future. Says a Salisbury businessman: "The whites are living in a cuckoo land if they think nothing is going to change. The Patriotic Front has already held meetings with the East Germans on how the economy should...