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...chance in the 3/4-mile race, but the competition here will also be greater with almost the whole cross country squad entered. Henry O. Marcy '38, Charles C. Worth '37, William H. Wright '38, and Brayton are all entered. Marcy and Worth have also gone into the 1 1/2 mile grind...
...outset of my remarks," he began, "let me make one thing perfectly clear. I am not a candidate for any nomination by any party, at any time. . . . Further than that, I have no ax to grind. There is nothing personal in this whole performance insofar as I am concerned. ... I am in possession of supreme happiness and comfort. . . . "When I see danger, I say danger. . . . What are these dangers that I see? The first is the arraignment of class against class. ... Of course in my time I met some good and bad industrialists. . . . But I also met some good...
Because they could take it as one more indication of degenerate capitalist aristocracy, Reds might delight in Henry de Montherlant's portrait of two eccentrics. Tycoons would find it had little connection with real life as they know it. But readers with no axe to grind and no grindstone to rest their noses on will be entertained, amused and touched by Perish in Their Pride. Though a study in human eccentricity (and French eccentricity at that), it was concentric with a more perfectly rounded humanity. Author Montherlant did not make caricatures of his creatures, grotesques in their own right...
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Fellow 12., certainly not a grind; Fellow 13., reasonably intelligent, but scarcely brilliant . . . grave sense of humor; Fellow 14., intellectually on his toes, confirmed pacifist, sees through things easily; Fellow 15., not completely submerged in studies...