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Still, there was some reason to regret Dunlop's departure. His style marked him off from the rest of the grey bureaucrats who have come to predominate around here, even though they are at least commited as he was to impending progress. Dunlop at least had a sense of commitment to match his engaging personality: his tactics, although expedient in an immediate sense, at least channeled events toward goals he valued sincerely and highly. Most of us accurately viewed him as an adversary, but he was at least the kind we could simultaneously chuckle at and respect even...
Mike O'Malley and Barry Malinowski are scheduled to start against the men in grey. Both O'Malley and Malinowski won their last starts and should be able to handcuff the weak-hitting Cadet batmen...
...have aged physically either. Unlike any other president in my memory, or of whom I've seen pictures -- before and after four years -- the man who sits behind the desk in the Oval Office in times more trying than any others in history has not sprouted an additional grey hair or developed a new wrinkle. Johnson, at least, looked as if the onus he bore fatigued him, and at the end of his five years, he looked as if it had been twenty...
...lonely grey-beards who comb sports statistics in places like Podunk, Kansas, are not apt to be upset by the Crimson lacrosse team's ninth place rating in New England, but it is with the stigma that the stickmen journey to New Hampshire today for an all-important tilt with fourth-ranked Dartmouth...
...refusal to patronize Indian civilization. Surely this vast culture has its own order which no Westerner can penetrate in two months. And surely there is no need to simplify or compromise it. Perhaps on his journey Malle learned the Indian virtue of humility. With all the wisdom of a grey-haired, bright-eyed maharaja he says we can only look at this foreign culture and beyond that "we are prisoners of our civilization, dreaming India...