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Frank Trippett's Essay "On Leading the Cheers for No. 1" [June 8] helped somewhat to deflate our growing propensity for self-glorification. As has been said: "If you get someone else to blow your horn, the sound will carry twice...
...arrest. The night before he was brought in, the suspect had led a police surveillance team on a chase through the city, driving past the homes of Mayor Maynard Jackson, Nathaniel Cater's father and finally Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, where he paused to honk his horn and shout. In addition, the possibility that Williams might attempt to flee was raised by reports that his father had requested information about a charter pilot at a local airport...
...common in the U.S., particularly among public figures. Indeed, an increasing number of Americans seem to have concluded that the right to ego implies the duty to exercise it publicly. The result is something of a rout for the time-honored American taboo against tooting one's own horn. Today it is commonplace for Americans to come right out and admit just how wonderful they really...
Next year, as the winner of the Paine Travelling Fellowship--awarded by the Music Department each year--he will travel through Europe studying horn and conducting...
...years he took the basic premed torture tests: the physics, the organic chemistry, the intro biology. He knew the results, the aims, the procedures of science, but he had no idea what lay behind the forests of glassware, behind the horn-rimmed glasses of the Nobel Laureate...