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Cavafy is a laureate of loss: loss of youth, loss of love, loss of existence. Some poets seem to be peering at the dawn of the world; Cavafy stares at its doom, a weary Olympian contemplating the "toys of fate." With age, the poet might have become a complete Cassandra of declivity. But he never relinquished his belief in the power of the artist to transform the sordid into the contemplative serenity of beauty...
Despite what the purists may claim, the Princess and her husband, Mark Phillips, were strong crowd pleasers. Both are world class riders; Princess Anne won the European Championships in 1971, and Phillips is a goldmedal-winning Olympian. Early that morning. Phillips had marched his bay gelding, Laureat II, right into the lead of the Dressage competition...
...Fosbury Flop broke the University and meet records with a leap of 7 ft. 2 1/4 in. The jump surpassed his own Harvard mark of 7 ft. 1 in. set last December against Boston College, and the Briggs Cage mark of 7 ft. 1 1/2 in. set by Olympian John Thomas...
...first really cold, clear day in late November, and secretaries at the Business School are coming in to Kresge Hall for their lunch hour. Kresge, you understand, is one of the B-School's imposing, immaculate buildings--quiet, a mass of glass and brick, exuding the aura of Olympian top-management executive retreats. Over on one side of the ground floor is a cafeteria where some of the secretaries eat plastic-wrapped sandwiches and drink half-pint cartons of Lo-Fat milk off of plastic trays...
...muddle of human affairs was no less firm than Voltaire's. His prowess at drawing his tory's sweep from the minutiae of daily events might have impressed even Gibbon. Had they discoursed on politics, he and Edmund Burke would have found themselves on the same aloof Olympian plane...