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...choices for this pantheon are, no doubt, debatable at length. Few would question the selection of a figure like Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first accredited woman doctor in the U.S. But the writers' list includes quite unimportant figures like Vita Sackville-West and Agnes Smedley, while ignoring real heroines of literature like the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. What has caused the real flap, however, is Chicago's relentless concentration on the pudenda...
Then came the interesting stuff. Thropsty Carlos Devalle snatched a Lowell fumble on the Lowell 42 to set up the second longest drive of the game. Second bests rarely merit much attention, but this drive may enter the pantheon of memorable drives because, well, it went backwards...
THERE WAS GREAT PURITY in William O. Douglas, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 to 1975. Douglas stands a lonely figure in the drafty pantheon of recent American heroes. Yet even near the end of his life, when others had conferred on him an almost ethereal mantle of rectitude, he scarcely seemed to notice. A classic though entirely atypical Westerner, Douglas seemed intent only on getting the job done, the wrong righted, and the next case summoned before the court...
...Garfield version, to be published in the U.S. by Pantheon Books in 1981, is sympathetic to the circumstances that fathered Drood: Dickens was consumed by his liaison with the 20-year-old actress Ellen Lawless Ternan. "The affair overshadows the book," Garfield be lieves. "Jasper represents Dickens himself. At times the affair with a girl so much younger must have appalled Dickens, who had conventional moral views...
That the cadets' encounter with the Crimson merits inclusion in the pantheon of "days" reveals how seriously this campus is taking today's sold-out football game. More than a confrontation between two football teams that seem headed for winning seasons after several dismal years, the game pits the nation's two best-known--and perhaps most different--academic institutions against one another for the first time since...