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...also feels betrayed by the angry poor who now mock his social concern: "He had used it to distinguish himself from the slobs of an earlier decade...
...moments before we separate to take our places in the world as men The costumes which this exercise compels us to don are often quaint, if not handsome, and at least offer some relief to the eye from the dress-suits worn the rest of the day. The mock affection of the embraces can hardly be called a deception, since no one supposes that the number of our friends is to be counted by the number of our embraces; and as for the nonsense of the proceeding, the truth of the well-known rhyme about "a little nonsense...
...from Fort Bragg. For a time they were American heroes. In 1965, Robin Moore's novel The Green Berets became a bestseller, and a year later, Barry Sadler's Ballad of the Green Berets went to the top of the song charts. John Wayne even made a mock-heroic hagiographical film, which among the young became Middle America's answer to The Graduate...
...Albert, 176 for Ford. Graciously, the defeated Ford escorted Albert, whose elfin face crinkled into a massive grin, through the cheering chamber. At the rostrum, Ford observed that "we are the representatives not of political parties but of the people." He praised Albert warmly and noted with mock solemnity that "until this moment, there has never been a Speaker from Bug Tussle, Oklahoma." Amid more applause, the diminutive Albert (5 ft. 4½ in.) took his place at the Speaker's desk and, in his surprisingly deep voice, declared: "We shall not look upon presidential proposals through partisan eyes; we will...
Continuing to teach, Dean Bok abandoned acrid professorial quizzing in favor of letting students play the roles of parties in mock labor disputes. Yet he set rigorous standards. One third-year student spent ten days reading to prepare for a conference on his thesis with Bok. In 45 minutes, Bok blitzed off four related subjects and their legal questions, suggested sources, and began to structure the paper into chapters, while the student sat agape...