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...familiar mold. An obnoxious ass of an academic, he freely assaults our sympathies and yet, at the same time, manages to force his grasp upon them. He's ready to insult anyone and everyone who wanders into his cramped little office; he's always willing to play the irritating fool; he struts and scorns in a bald exhibition of inflated ego and pomposity--but, "in point of fact," he's so annoyingly good at it that he can't help but win the appreciation, if not the admiration, of the audience--his audience...
...color." To Miriam, the protagonist of "Sour or Suntanned. It Makes No Difference," the main problem, on the other hand, is how to avoid being contaminated by the grayness of other peoples' lives. To this unhappily observant child, the world is composed of an admixture of liars and fool, typified by an aunt "who spent her life thinking there was not much children could understand" and an uncle who keeps trying to figure out which countries are "faking it" with Socialism. Miriam's often bewildered scorn can find no surer irritant than the fakery of summer camp. "They were...
...ANYONE FOOL ENOUGH to mention Pine Manor in the company of Radcliffe women is liable to greeted with a scathing chorus of "imports," "prime mattress." "ring by spring or your money back." or other variations on the same theme. Chances are that the taunts will be laughed off because, after all, Radcliffe women are only protecting their first-come-first-serve privileges. But the cracks are not so simple or so harmless. They are spelled out by some kind of Ivy territorial instinct, a grabbiness for Harvard men. And along with this attraction for male booty comes a repulsion...
...writer confesses, "I was very glad that the coolie had been killed; it put me legally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the elephant. I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool." That is more than the bottom line of a 1936 article; it is the epitaph of the British imperial style...
...international meets three years ago, other runners viewed his style with disdain. Instead of pacing himself and saving a kick for the last quarter-mile, Bayi sprinted from the gun. His opponents, recalls Hurdler Tom Hill, "used to sit back at their old pace and say, 'Wow, this fool is going to drop dead on the third lap.' " Trouble was, Bayi never did. He began to make a habit of leaving astonished stars behind him. Last year at the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, Bayi atomized Jim Ryun's seven-year-old 1,500-meter world record...