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Weary and desperately trying to hold off the bull-like rushes and lunges of the South American heavyweight champion from Argentina, Ali suddenly nailed the strong-jawed Bonavena with a solid left hook to the jaw that dropped Oscar for a count...
Robert Bronson, "the last great New England transcendentalist," is the ghost that got away. The author of Captain Hook's Gang, Sunday Mornings with Zarathustra and other poems, Bronson is something like a son of Ahab in corduroy pants. So long as he was in and out of psychiatric wards, so long as "his true sense of sight was anger," Bronson remained a darling of the Boston literati. But then-in 1953, to be exact -Bronson transcended: He found the One, the Oversoul, the Truth, the Great Zero that Emerson and all the earlier transcendentalists only dreamed of discovering...
...article, Hook, professor of philosophy at New York University, blamed student rebels who try to intimidate faculty and other students and administrators who allow them...
...Hook's recent article blaming college administrators for allowing campus disorders was mailed in September to over 900 college presidents and trustees by President Nixon...
...When universities are politicized an agenda of study becomes an agenda of action, and therewith converts the university into a political organization agitating for the adoption of partisan political goals," Hook's article stated...