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...changed so suddenly. The Titans changed owners and names, and surfaced with Namath; the Knicks and Rangers put everything together, overnight it seemed, and began to win as much as they had lost in the past. The Mets just lost their charm. They won enough to disappoint people, and ordinary mediocrity doesn't draw fans. They began to play like the Cubs, and started to look like them around the roster to boot. And then they stole the League and the Series...
Clearly the "Trudeaumania" that swept Canada with Trudeau's election in 1968 has withered. When they put him in office, Canadians thought that they were getting a lively Kennedy-like leader, and for a while he did not disappoint them. He appeared in the House of Commons in ascot and sandals, frugged, dated Barbra Streisand, and in general looked and behaved more like a playboy than in the usual stodgy manner of Canadian Prime Ministers. He also fashioned solid accomplishments such as his firm handling of the separatist crisis in 1970, pushing a tax reform through the Commons...
...waning as her Nov. 14 marriage to Captain Mark Phillips approaches. Annoyed by the command that servicemen pass the hat for the young couple, newsmen were further rankled by Horsewoman Anne's gibe after she took a fall at the European equestrian championships in Kiev: "Sorry to disappoint but I'm not badly hurt." Not even the special wedding stamp is getting its licks. Cynics note that before the princess would put her best face on it, critical retouching was required...
THIS CHRONICLE of the inception and growth of an experimental community named Twin Oaks will undoubtedly disappoint corporatist radicals and behavior-modification devotees alike. Given the circumstances, however, the disappointment is edifying. The society fashioned in front of the reader's eyes is an object lesson, inadvertantly so--encouraging not its emulation, but critical examination of a theory of human behavior both untenable in itself and thoroughly at odds with any revolutionary program...
CHUL members, who represent the sometimes conflicting interests of different groups in the University, agree that any housing plan will redistribute problems rather than solve them. Any housing plan they concoct will inevitably disappoint some students...