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Perhaps the most telling feat of all was the Crimson's climb to prominence in the Ivy League--a climb which saw Harvard reel off four straight victories before closing with the season's most disappointing loss, at Brown, and the tie at Yale. But the 4-1-1 league record was good enough for a second-place league finish, just one-half game behind Penn's 5-1 championship mark...
YEAGER is the sobering backdrop to all the fanfare that lionizes Glenn and his crew. He was the first man to break the barrier, a feat he pulled in 1947, and he continues to push technology to the limit, returning to the cockpit to each time his speed record is broken. The public doesn't care about Yeager. (A military officer squelched initial publicity of the sound barrier accomplishment for "security reasons.") And, Yeager doesn't care about having a public. He just wants challenge...
Sprinters do not ordinarily sign up for marathons, nor do lonely long-distance runners enter the crush of 100-yard dashes. But some authors perform an analogous feat by writing both short stories and novels. Instead of being complimented on their versatility, though, they frequently encounter a peculiar problem: facing themselves as competitors. Choices, so the assumption goes, must be made. Which Hemingway is the ultimate winner, the one who broke so many tapes in In Our Time or the one who strode with such manly endurance through The Sun Also Rises? Which O'Hara, which Welty, which Cheever...
There are individual dreams and collective dreams. Charles Lindbergh's trajectory across the Atlantic in 1927 was a vivid feat of individualism. He became one of the last romantic heroes. He brilliantly employed the technology of flight in its primitive stage, before technology seemed to overwhelm the individual. If the American space program produced a triumph of teamwork in an age when hundreds of human brains were needed to collaborate, like microchips, in the mastery of so much detail, Lindbergh's flight represented a peculiarly, almost wistfully, American way of doing things. It was a lonely achievement...
Although the Apollo 11 astronauts planted an American flag on the moon, their feat was far more than a national triumph. It was a stunning scientific and intellectual accomplishment for a creature who, in the space of a few million years-an instant in evolutionary chronology-emerged from primeval forests to hurl himself at the stars. Its eventual effect on human civilization is a matter of conjecture. But it was in any event a shining reaffirmation of the premise that whatever man imagines he can bring to pass...