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...international competition was the keenest ever, the revived U.S. team facing the top equestrian talent of Brazil, Mexico, Ireland and Canada. Appropriately, Colonel Humberto Mariles, captain of the Mexican Army team, rode off with the show's first big award, the President of Mexico Trophy, for traversing a 13-jump course on three successive mounts...
...Hence, keenest of all has been the competition between the Ivy "Big Four" of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth, who all essentially want the same kind of "scholar" especially "scholar-leader" and "scholar-athlete," and who all have developed the same desire to achieve a student body that is geographically representative as well. Provost Buck framed the problem as early as 1946: "What is not obvious to outsiders--and even to many very close to the situation as as it existed in the pre-war years--is the paucity of applicants of the kind we most desire...
...gingerbread elaborations of his style, Author Blackwood is more a Victorian than a modern. Yet, far more than most Victorians, Blackwood has a fervor for the inhuman, subhuman, or superhuman, and a distaste for the world of men. The story in which Black wood expresses his keenest distaste for actual life is perhaps his most carefully composed one, The Lost Valley. Twin brothers, who have lived only for each other for 35 years, find themselves in love with the same woman, resolve on suicide as the only way out. One of his eeriest tales, The Wendigo (a notable omission...
...Bloody Professors. The keenest political observer alive in the 20th Century, in a typically Churchillian phrase, once privately called the men in the Kremlin "those ruthless and bloody-minded professors." No Westerner knew much about what went on inside their grisly university, where last week the faculty was doubtless researching the pros & cons of the next possible moves. The West did, however, know what the campus looked like...
...complete poet, one of the few who ever stuck it out as such in a tough country for poets. Frost's reputation has been secure for 35 years; he is America's most popular living poet of the first rank; but only lately, and to the keenest readers, has he begun to seem as subtle, as haunting and hurting a poet as in truth...