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...soon received the attention of the national press. Newsweek, in an article reporting the project, described his achievement this way: "A poor farm boy by birth, an engineer by profession and a passionate apostle of black self-help by virtue of his own experience, Evans has accomplished the remarkable feat by searching the back country of the Deep South for dirt-poor but talented black high-school students who were unaware that institutions like Harvard, Dartmouth and Amherst are urgently seeking youngsters precisely like them...
...parentage and prospects are in doubt. Coached by a wise old tutor, however, the lad performs a trick involving a stubborn, sacred stone; the feat indicates future greatness. Then he goes on to subdue rival warlords, bringing his people unity and peace...
...requires a feat of extraordinary mnemonic ability to recall the time when "art appreciation" connoted something other than people's tendency to push handmade objets deluxe to more and more expensive levels; when it meant the disinterested study and enjoyment of the human imagination for its own sake. Capital growth, once regarded as an occasional and peripheral reward of the collector's passion, has now become its chief-and in many cases its only-purpose. The "successful" work of art is the one that most rapidly becomes a medium of exchange, its meaning certified by bullion...
...competition on the San Diego State University women's team was too easy. When the president of the university ruled that for the first time coeds could compete with men in noncontact sports, Brassey immediately won a place on the men's team. Two months ago her feat was matched by Yale Coed Charlise Brown, who shattered a 122-year-old Yale sports tradition by joining its previously all-male diving team...
...last year's ESIC championships, Princeton took the crown with the Wolfpack edging out Harvard on the last day of competition for second. Coach Essick is worried that Princeton just might have enough incentive to pull off the same feat after its burial in Cambridge in February...