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Lawrence High School, you see, was not producing great numbers of college students in the early years of the Depression (though Robert Frost was a Lawrence alum; "It was one of the things I had in common with him when we later got to know each other," Kelleher says). Born into a family of carpenters, Kelleher joined that trade when he graduated. For two years --"the two most useful years of my life for growing up and getting to know people"--he was sub-assistant carpenter. "I hadn't any expectation of going to college," he says. But since...
...anti-institutional bias has also been hard on oaths. So has that low-grade chronic ache (inflation, partly, and the erosion of dreams) that tells Americans so often that their society has not fulfilled its end of the social contract. Americans do not find themselves harmonizing much on Robert Frost's lonely, manly lines: "But I have promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep/ And miles to go before I sleep...
...promises, contracts and oaths are the acts of will and intelligence and anticipation that make a society coherent, that hold it together. If they cannot be trusted, then the whole structure begins to wobble. If the air-traffic controllers do not care to recite Frost, they might consider William Murray, Britain's Solicitor General in the 18th century: "No country can subsist a twelvemonth where an oath is not thought binding, for the want of it must necessarily dissolve society." -By Lance Morrow
Spectator sports go the way of the frost come spring; sure, some people go to lacrosse (particularly to see Harvard's women's team, best in the East last year) and a few watch the baseball team, and a couple more put on their lime pants to watch the crew races, but not many people do any of that. The men's tennis team, which bested Princeton and advanced to the national championships last year for the first time ever, did so in virtual privacy. It may be academic vigilance, rampant romance or, most likely, mere tradition, but Harvard thrill...
...tiptoe through interviews with royalty in this country. That's at the Palace's request." The U.S. networks tried to make up for their lack of access to the royal couple by hiring commentators such as Actors Robert Morley (ABC) and Peter Ustinov (NBC), Interviewer David Frost and Historian Lady Antonia Fraser (CBS). They did not always help. Morley joked cloyingly about his "missing invitation to St. Paul's." When Chancellor asked Ustinov why the British people love the royal family so, Ustinov said it was the same drive that makes them "rip out seats at football...