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...Government began to investigate security risks. Would my own career be threatened by having read the Communist Manifesto in Gov. 1? F.O. Matthiessen, an icon to those of us concentrating in American history and lit, spoke on behalf of Henry A. Wallace, the accommodationist third-party candidate at the Progressive Party Convention in 1948. Wallace had attracted many supporters at Harvard. In early 1950, widely attacked in the press, Matthiessen jumped to his death from a hotel window...
...instead of immediately becoming a poetic icon, he toiled in anonymity for over 17 years, before seeing the light of the literary landscape...
Here's a new role model I call Icon Woman...
...Icon Woman, of course, embraces and exploits...
...Knight is an icon who stands tall on the otherwise flat Indiana landscape. He makes alumni proud - and proud alumni send big, fat checks to the university development office. And luckily for Knight, his is the twisted realm of collegiate athletics, where the NCAA is king and where anyone who uses the word "responsible" is well advised to keep a dictionary handy...