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...civic icon but a messy series of collisions that knock together the arrangements of the nation's life. Those arrangements become America's history -- what its people do, what they are, what they mean. Walt Whitman wrote, "I contain multitudes." That is what the Constitution does -- an astonishing feat considering the variety of multitudes that have landed on American shores, and continue to land...
...like the wild Englishman Lord Berners, who invited a horse to tea, or less extravagantly, Bill Russell, who played basketball to meet only his own standards of excellence. Russell told his daughter that he never heard the boos of the crowd because he never heard the cheers -- no easy feat in an age pumped up by windbags and Kirkus Reviews. Your commencement speaker hopes that you will turn a deaf ear to empty praise as much as to careless blame, that you will scare yourself with your own severity...
...Pyle. His struggle to shed his dependency on jelly doughtnuts is almost comical, with Kubrick showing Pyle absurdly running at the end of the platoon with his pants at his ankles, sucking his thumb. The transformation of Pyle from chubby mama's boy to bloodthirsty marine is an incredulous feat, serving to demonstrate how a hellish eight-week boot camp stay can turn even the meekest of men into "jolly green giants with rifles...
...head of the official Novosti press agency, initially predicted that the "young man will soon see his parents and friends." But as the week wore on, the Soviets seemed to grow less and less inclined to let Rust off the hook, or for that matter to dismiss his unprecedented feat as an innocent, if dangerous, stunt. In any case, said Yegor Yakovlev, editor in chief of the foreign-language weekly Moscow News, Rust "will have to answer according...
Last month HUCTW accomplished a feat that has stumped the other unions at the University--drawing together all seven Harvard unions into a coalition, to work together and show solidarity in the case of a strike. Union experts see this unprecedented move as a testament to HUCTW's successful organizing strategies...