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...interplay between inequality and equality. Inequality is the less talked about, but in fact the more fervently practiced. It is the great generator, inspiring the energy that spanned the American continent. It multiplies the wealth, sharpens the wits, creates the nervous dynamism that is called progress. The desire to excel is the adrenaline of competition. If winning does not matter, asked Adolph Rupp, former University of Kentucky basketball coach, why does anyone bother to keep score? Yes, but everyone knows the competitive excesses that inequality also encourages: the ruthless athlete who thinks that sportsmanship is for losers, the politician with...
...whether it was, say, a black minstrel with one leg or a white-bearded old man with a "seeing-eye tortoise" is pursued in tightly logical but ridiculous dialogue at which Robert Vaughn and Katherine McGrath, as a pair of entertainers just back from an exhibit of Magritte paintings, excel. It is, of course, a theatrical equivalent of Magritte's surrealism, a kind of trompe l'oe il of the stage, where the characters quibble with intense specificity about their own conflicting illusions...
...gross disservice to the students, who are fighting to succeed in a society which, they fear, is reluctant to recognize their efforts and their success. TIME'S reporter interviewed science teachers about reading but never interviewed the reading teachers, and you publish a picture of students who excel and imply by the caption that they read at the fifth-grade level...
...Saturday afternoon. The Tigers boast a few nationally ranked swimmers of their own and lead the Eastern League with a 4-0 record. They have a freshman freestyler whose battle with Tetlow in the long distance events should provide the meet's highlight. Not only do the Tiger swimmers excel; the Princeton diving program is rated one of the country's best...
CRIMSON-SUN--At 9 a.m. today on Cornell's North Campus field, the Crimson road-tripping touch football team will brave the cold of Ithaca to subdue the Cornell Daily Sun. Twenty-one point margin likely. Crimson 23, Sun 2, Quarterback Robin Freedberg will excel...