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...easy task to succeed a legendary coach like Jack Barnaby; nor is it an insult to live in that man's shadow. But yesterday's triumph over Princeton definitively propels Crimson coach Dave Fish out of the shadow and into the spotlight...
...disco hit: YMCA ... YMCA... YMCA. The Unicorn Hunters, a society of zealous word watchers based at Lake Superior State College in Michigan, offer a list of current English scourges. Among them: "ballpark figure," "pre-boarding-how can you board a plane before you board it?" and "no problem." Even insult has lost its point: "I couldn't care less" has degenerated to the meaningless "I could care less." Greetings are equally vapid: telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button. Kramer vs. Kramer is advertised...
Your decision to make Khomeini the Man of the Year is an insult to the people of the U.S. and to the hostages...
...pages; $9.95), a recreation of one of the century's greatest unsolved heists. To the vast displeasure of King Edward VII, to whom they belonged, the so-called Irish Crown Jewels vanished in 1907 from a safe in Dublin Castle, never to be recovered. The crowning insult was that the investigation threatened to embrangle Edward's brother-in-law, the playboy Duke of Argyll, in a homosexual scandal. As a result, the friends of Edward VII "perpetrated a cover-up that makes the Watergate Affair appear the work of backward children...
...insistence that the New Left developed solely on its own pragmatic base and owed little or nothing to Marx. To the non-Marxist unfamiliar with the "humanist" ideas of Marxism, this "reinvigoration" of Marxist ideals does not make sense. To the Marxist, it may even appear to be an insult. Watered-down Marxism does not go over big in any strata of society; this apparent attempt by Lader to reconcile the far-flung members of the various Leftist organizations by uniting them under one big almost-Marx ideological myth dilutes an otherwise coherent and informatuve treatise...