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...Captain," in which the Michaels narrator, trying to win a job in a publishing company, goes to a dinner party and makes love with his prospective boss's wife. He tantalizes the boss with his own wife (but does not yield her) and concludes with a feat of manhood, screwing his own wife in the back seat of a cab. The narrator gets the job, while the boss finds consolation only in breaking wind at his departing guests...
...qualities Cecil Rhodes specified in his will as desirable in Rhodes scholars are wide open for interpretation. "Literary and scholastic ability and attainments; qualities of manhood, truthfulness, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; exhibition of moral force of character, and instincts to lead and to take an interest in his fellows; physical vigor, as shown by fondness for and success in sports." None of these are exactly standardized, nor have the will's executors standardized their definition of requisite qualities. Still, one thing is fairly clear about the will: Cecil Rhodes...
Applicants who don't get such an obvious chance to display their manhood probably find the committee's decisions a little more arbitrary. Gregory S. Dube '76, who is applying from Maine, says, "the tales [of interviews] have planted the seeds of trepidation in my mind, but I think the interview process is probably the fairest way to do it--if you can't take the interview you probably won't like the other Rhodes scholars, since the committee members are pretty representative." Dube is fairly optimistic about his chances for at least the state nomination, but he shrugs...
...needs to reinforce his manhood by slaughtering helpless animals is probably reinforcing what was never there...
John Kennedy had been a bona fide war hero, but he was concerned a great deal about showing his manhood. He delighted in the story of how he called the big steelmen "s.o.b.s," and in fact it was he who leaked the story. In the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, an evacuation plan was devised for key people in Washington. It meant that if the crisis grew, the select group would be taken by helicopter to the special command post under a Virginia mountain. Kennedy pondered a short while, then confided to some of his closest aides that...