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...dozen years ago, Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois seemed an ideal presidential prospect. Gifted with patrician good looks and a rich, sonorous voice, Percy, by the end of his first Senate term in 1972, had earned a solid reputation as an independent-minded Republican in the progressive Rockefeller mold. But his star soon stopped soaring. A stodgy campaigner, he made a tentative presidential bid in 1976 and nearly lost his 1978 Senate race to a little-known Democrat, Attorney Alex Seith. Trying to keep pace with America's growing conservatism, Percy changed his stands on economic issues, foreign...
...prefer to be a woman"). A communications major at Brigham Young University who wants to become a news anchorwoman, Wells bristles at the suggestion that her conservative views helped her win the crown. "It seems that the media are bent on forcing everything I say into their Miss America mold," she complains. "The judges never questioned me about my views on morals, religion and social mores." And it seems unlikely that relieved pageant officials will ever have...
...Rona Jaffe '51 and Faye Levine '65 do, and done it better. Three of the four main characters, while stereotypes simply because they are exactly what we have come to expect from Radcliffe, do engage the reader for a while; will they follow formula or break out of the mold? If they become social deviants, will it be in a typical fashion or by doing something genuinely unacceptable? The rigid social structure of the old Radcliffe was still in place when Adams and her characters attended the school-pincurls in one's hair at meals indicated a hot date...
...hold athletes to such an abnormal standard? Because of a public desire to form them into some ideal mold? Because universities find football and basketball programs too financially lucrative to risk tampering with...
Butler's in the John Witkowski mold, only better. But unlike Columbia's graduated signal-caller, Butler plays for a team that wins occasionally...