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...Sundance Kid. wants to go to Law School, preferably at Harvard. He doesn't think his athletic career will help too much, though. "The criteria that got you into college and the criteria that get you into law school are different," he said. "You can't just be a jock with slightly above average grades...
Four against products of Fred Jewett's jock factory overwhelmed Thayer South Monday night in the IAB to give Holworthy a ?-49 victory and the Freshman Intramural Basketball Championship...
...rebel candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski charged that the U.M.W. was "the most notoriously dictatorial labor union in America." When he was defeated by Incumbent W.A. ("Tony") Boyle last December, Yablonski protested that the election had been a fraud. After Yablonski, his wife and 25-year-old daughter were found murdered, Boyle still dismissed the fraud charges as "wild allegations" and claimed that his union had been the "victim of a journalistic lynching bee." Last week the Labor Department moved to vindicate Jock Yablonski. It asked federal courts to throw...
...person is an excellent narrative mode: it allows you to commit incredible errors of style and pass them off as a characterization of your narrator. Segal takes full advantage of this technique (although his lapses are more the voice of a wisecracking writer than that of a Harvard preppie jock), which also permits brevity by enabling you to describe characters rather than illustrate them. The reader might not accept the words of an author who says. "Jenny was brilliant," but if Oliver Barrett IV himself says so- in the third sentence of the book- what can one do but believe...
...fire marshals, the disciplinary committee, and sign painters. Coaches instructing players got argued with on certain points of technique. Little lost children and stray dogs visited briefly. Coach Marion consumed several sandwiches and a bag of doughnuts. Electronic gadgets rigged to register touches several times broke down beyond attendant Jock's understanding. Fencers, upon completing their individual duties, dressed hurriedly and departed for other amusements. There were those on the sidelines who envied them. (??) the Trinity lads