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...August 1948, a wiry young man with kinky hair, cupped ears and an amiable smile came back to the U.S. after spending a year as a G.I. bill student at the Sorbonne, and found that he had become the overnight lion of American letters. Norman Mailer's brutal, scatological novel of war on a Pacific island, The Naked and the Dead, was in its eleventh week as the nation's top bestseller, and the critical ovation was still going on. A few reviewers detected the strong influence of Melville and Dos Passos in Mailer's massive novel...
...Clark McAdams Clifford is an old man by the actuarial tables of "Operation Kennedy," but he was once a young lion of Democratic politics himself. The son of well-to-do parents and nephew of a crusading editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he was a model boy with golden ringlets, went from law school into a prosperous St. Louis law firm, became a flashy and prosperous trial lawyer with a godlike blond profile that wowed the female jurors...
...price of occasional stiltedness, particularly in the juxtaposition of a courageous Lincoln (Michael Tolan) with a monomaniac McClellan, a tough T. R. (boisterously acted by Larry Blyden) with a reactionary J. P. Morgan, who remarked magnificently, on hearing that Roosevelt had gone on a safari: "I hope the first lion who sees him does his duty...
...Thomas Ernest Hulme, a brilliant young English intellectual who seemed to take all knowledge for his hobby. When a burst of shellfire killed Hulme on the Western Front in 1917, he was just 34, and had been successively a poet, philosopher, self-proclaimed political reactionary, militarist, and pet lion of his own literary salon. A huge, indolent man of lightning intelligence and wit who combined a Prussian officer's bearing with a contagious charm, Hulme was perhaps best described by his sculptor friend Jacob Epstein when he wrote: "He was capable of kicking a theory as well...
Columbia challenged only once, after The Crimson had built up a 2-0 lead in the second quarter. Two quick Lion goals the game, but the varsity rallied for 3-2 lead at intermission...