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...wine label than the wine. But even these insecure customers can find little solace in The Best. Many of its items are mere common sense (the Best Chess Player Other Than Bobby Fischer: Boris Spassky). Many more are only clothbound Consumer Reports (the Best Camera Under $100: the Japanese Olympus 355P...
...author is a sports nut now edging toward 50. He grew up in fashionable Merion, Pa., member of a distinguished, divided and furiously competitive clan. His mother, Historian Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus), apparently never lost at any sport. Bowen dreamed of becoming a triple-threat back at Princeton but became a pedestrian first baseman at Amherst, then an editor in New York. Years passed. Sports stars grew younger. Bowen grew older. Came the day when he could no longer take comfort even from the presence on the sporting scene of elderly prizefighters like Archie Moore, or the ageless...
Died. Catherine Drinker Bowen, 76, stately, spirited patrician who found a large audience as the author of well-researched, fictionalized biographies of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Yankee from Olympus), Sir Edward Coke (The Lion and the Throne) and John Adams (John Adams and the American Revolution); of cancer; in Haverford...
...book was to have ended on a triumphant note, a "view from Olympus," on March 17, 1973, as Nixon described his use of a President's power in an exclusive interview with the author. White records a self-confident Nixon, trained by four years in office to ignore public tumult and exclude all but highest-priority matters from his attention; such tough-minded devotion to long views is, White decides, the stuff of history. At that time, he writes, "my judgment . . . would have cast Richard Nixon as one of the major Presidents of the 20th century, in a rank...
Like gods dissembling from atop Mount Olympus, the Faculty has spoken: the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities will not be reformed, nor will the Resolution that charters it be revised. Although purportedly distressed by the evaporation of the student trust that is supposed to have once existed here the Faculty inexplicably erects yet another barrier to the redemption of that trust by refusing to consider even the most modest attempts to reform the disciplinary process...