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...past. As the Norman Mailer-Germaine Greer exchange indicated recently, the snub-nosed innuendo aimed below the belt is today's favored weapon. When quips were quips even a President of the United States could get them off. Remember the British diplomat who told Lincoln that "English gentlemen never black their own boots"? Lincoln looked up from buffing his own and replied, "Whose boots do you black...
...Meeting, a fatal and apparently meaningless duel between two gentlemen at a party takes on the significance of another sort of "meeting" across time. The two knives which are wielded in the fight seem to quiver, as if by their own energy, in the hands of the unskilled fighters. Taken from a glass cabinet, they are relics from earlier days of Argentine banditry. The narrator discovers, years after this fight that he witnessed as a child, that these two knives (or ones very much like them) belonged to two outlaws, who jealousy despised one another, but who never were able...
...Gentlemen, you are about to play football for Yale against Harvard. Never in your lives will you ever do anything else as important."--T.A.D. Jones, Yale football coach, circa...
...foreign student at Harvard (GSAS). On Saturday, May 13, 1972, about 7:30 p.m., I was attacked on Kirkland St. by three young hoodlums who roughed me up and robbed me of my expensive camera and photo equipment. My cries for help moved only two young gentlemen, who started chasing the robbers; but, in view of the situation, I almost despaired of seeing the runaways caught. Fortunately, somebody alerted the Harvard Police, who arrested the robbers in a lightning action supported by the City of Cambridge Police. Hardly did fifteen minutes elapse between the robbery in front of William James...
T.A.D. Jones, Yale '07 lies uneasy in his grave today. The gentlemen from New Haven have decided that competing against Harvard is not the most important thing that they will ever do in their lives. Back in the '20s, Jones used to tell his Yale teams that it was. Apparently, the Yale varsity track team doesn't buy that idea any longer...