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It was their way of expressing their gratitude towards Parish, an athlete of enormous talent who had both the advantage and disadvantage of playing in the shadow of greatness.
While in the past Harvard and Yale were synonymous with each other--in greatness--this is no longer true, Sedgwick reports.
Mr. McGahern's Collected Stories, released in paperback in March, speak to the difference between an abstract greatness and what we like. When Tipperary, a character in the story "Hearts of Oak and Bellies of Brass," asks the narrator if he thinks Shakespeare was all that he was bumped up...
Mr. McGahern is often described as a great Irish writer, but he see that as a foolish categorization." "Somebody who set himself up to be an Irish writer would be a fool," he said, speaking of himself, "because you're Irish anyhow. It's an accident, and the less said...
My statement regarding Harvard's greatness" was thus intending to praise Harvard's actual excellence in various areas of endeavor, while at the same time warn against the sometimes resultant arrogance and complacency which could prevent Harvard from acting to maintain its preeminent standing as a world-class institution. Yes...