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Charlotte’s journey through her freshman year, not surprisingly, has its ups and downs. The ups include her stellar performance in a Neuroscience lecture that prompts a professor to praise her, which in turn prompts Charlotte to repeat, mantra-esque, the title of the novel in an annoying self-esteem boosting fashion. The downs involve her navigating the pitfalls of Dupont’s social scene, including a particularly harrowing libidinal run-in with Hoyt Thorpe, in which Wolfe uses words like “mons pubis” and “ball-peen hammer?...
...same mantra that has served him so well throughout the season carried Schindel through the pre-season as well...
...long hair and beard evoke the style "modern caveman." His philosophy could generously be described as early developmental. "We are just the idiots," he mused during the postseason, referring to the moniker that the team had adopted. This in a city with 100 colleges. Damon was echoing his teammates' mantra: they were playing a kid's game, they were having fun, but they were also going to "grind you out." "We try to eliminate the thinking and let our natural abilities take over. So I think that's why the phrase about the idiots kind of took off," Damon explained...
...most resounding political blow of our generation with baseball, I say two things: First, sports are a good, if trite, metaphor for life; and second, fandom can teach us a lot about the human spirit. “The time will come” became a Red Sox mantra. Down and out for 86 years, millions of fans spanning generations didn’t stop cheering. Down three games to the Yankees, the Sox triumphed and went on to beat St. Louis, claiming the championship in the most American sport...
...Don’t Tell is sure to please the die-hard Sandler fan and a few surprising social groups, too. Even though the average person could perceive much of the content of this album to be offensive, it remains true to Sandler’s longtime mantra of making people laugh, period. The courage to be himself—even if that self is an immature, potty-humor-revering grown man—and to challenge the heavily imposed restrictions of the media today, is somewhat admirable...