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Back in the Eisenhower era, as one undergraduate put it, Yalies viewed the future as "Stairway to Heaven, moving up through the clouds on a blissful escalator." Trillin, a strangely appealing mixture of Jewish arriviste and Midwestern hick, entered college without ever having heard of Dostoyevsky or Greenwich, and he figured to stop ascending early in the journey. Denny was expected to keep on climbing. Champion athlete, top-ranking student, Rhodes scholar, subject of a Life magazine piece, he was discussed seriously as a potential candidate for the presidency. Forty years later, after a life of obscurity and pain...
...animal-language experiments had an awards dinner, the prize for best accent would go to the befeathered Alex. The parrot acquired his Midwestern accent from his mentor, Pepperberg. She became intrigued by the language work with great apes in the 1970s and decided to examine the abilities of an animal with an entirely different brain structure. She chose parrots in part because they can actually talk and because studies had established that the birds could perform as well as chimps on some psychological tests, suggesting that brain size is not the only determinant of mental ability...
...Paint Columns" tells us, or is she his lonely step-mother, as we read in "The Search for Water"? Is Martin a runaway boy who shows up at John's Kansas house one day, or a grade school teacher in New York? An obscenely rich club-hopper or a Midwestern night watchman who barely can scrape together enough for rent...
That kind of controversy is one reason that most schools are still wary about dealing with the issue at any grade level. Project 21, a San Francisco- based organization that favors teaching about gay and lesbian issues, mailed out questionnaires asking 35 Midwestern school districts what assistance they provide for gay students. Only 10 responded. "Most districts want to avoid the whole topic," says Robert Birle, the organization's Midwestern-states coordinator. "But if schools get beyond looking at gay youth as the problem and look at the homophobic atmosphere instead, we'll get some positive results...
...Notre Dame men's tennis team is one of four Midwestern powers competing in this weekend's Harvard Invitational Tennis Tournament at the Palmer-Dixon courts...