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Harvard golf Coach Jock Hopkins smiled all the way home...

Author: By Josie Karp, | Title: Holy Swings! | 10/5/1990 | See Source »

After all, why should I cheer for some jock who probably can't even appreciate my organic chemistry test score and certainly won't be slapping me any high-fives...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Me? Cheer? For Them? | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

After all, why should I cheer for some jock who probably can't even appreciate my organic chemistry test score and certainly won't be slapping me any high-fives...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Me? Cheer? For Them? | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

After all, why should I cheer for some jock who probably can't even appreciate my organic chemistry test score and certainly won't be slapping me any high-fives...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Me? Cheer? For Them? | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...speak in Henry James sentences and try to live in Philip Barry's plays. Their manners are ) impeccable (a deb can be paid no higher compliment than being called "well read"), their snobbery impregnable (one boy doesn't have a driver's license because, he tuts, "I'm no jock!"). They know they are out of fashion and cheerfully debate their irrelevance, like dinosaurs analyzing their own bones. Most of them are moneyed, but they soon must admit to a crucial class distinction: between the aristocracy of the desired and the proletariat of the unloved. In short, they are very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 3, 1990 | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

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