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...main reason is Donnie McPherson, a resourceful senior quarterback from West Hempstead, N.Y. Being a black quarterback, he is often referred to as a running quarterback, though in fact he is a quarterback-quarte rback. "Only Syracuse promised me that I would be the quarterback and that I'd be allowed to do quarterback things," he says. "Other schools talked about trying me there but said to keep receiving in mind, and maybe defensive back." This sham goes back as far as leather helmets, but the schools leaving it behind are increasing. No fewer than 15 black quarterbacks have been...
Bryn Mawr President Mary Patterson McPherson believes single-sex institutions play an important role by contributing to a pluralistic approach to education. She frets about the sameness of so many American colleges: "There aren't many institutions anymore that have a very clear image." Futter concurs, "We are dealing with an increasingly franchised commodity. This isn't hamburgers; this is education." Finally, educational leaders are far from convinced that the women's movement has erased the prejudices that gave rise to women's colleges in the first place. "Maybe there will come a day when women and men will...
...William McPherson...
Sailors once dreaded the blue Sargasso Sea, believing its gulfweed could entangle them forever. The protagonist of William McPherson's novel fears entrapment in other currents. Andrew MacAllister, 40, an American playwright, is lured by the danger of adultery while in London to open one of his plays. He feels "controlled by urgent signals other than his own." Later, when he and his wife Ann, "the couple on the wedding cake," are on vacation in Bermuda, he has a homosexual encounter and is shocked to find that his body continually horrifies him. In McPherson's fine first novel Testing...
...under Roosevelt, was very much attuned to constitutional battles. The supreme legislator of this century as a Senator, L.B.J. noticeably changed his tack when he got in the White House. "I'm not going to leave this job weaker than when I came in," he told his counsel, Harry McPherson. But for all his muscle flexing, Johnson chose to retire rather than run for re-election in the teeth of the Viet Nam protests. Six years later, Nixon would resign, swept from power by public disapproval and Congress's instigation of impeachment proceedings. The Executive arrogance and excess in Viet...