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...It’s a great atmosphere down at Yale,” junior Reed Endresen said. “It will be very energetic. Great squash will be played...
...three people in hot pursuit. What fate had grasped C.? Was a fight brewing? Or had it been a feminine grace that had led him upstairs, and had he found true love? He was nowhere to be seen in the upstairs hallway. We began to feel great concern and a twinge of jealousy...
...like to find their way back to those John Wayne-style golden prairies where strength, independence, and cleverness are rewarded, rather than suspected. Surface theatrics aside, the Tea Party is nearly alone in asking serious questions about the meaning of politics in America. After all, it takes a great deal of gravity in one’s mission to confidently employ such public, attention-grabbing techniques...
...Angry Young Men—even if they were just a couple of malcontent writers with a grab-bag of social gripes—ultimately succeeded as a purifying force for Britain. The great kick they aimed at the nation’s too-comfortable posterior helped send it flying into the next, culturally revolutionary decade. As long as the Obama administration apes the Churchill cabinet in continuing to demand sacrifices and a cut of each month’s paycheck without results, there will be a similar reaction—and as the movement this time isn?...
...noticed two things about her before I even knew her,” Smith recounts. “One was that she could really throw a ball, and the second was that she was really athletic. And I thought, my gosh, that’s a great combination. If I could ever teach her how to swim, we’d really have something there...