Word: plimpton
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...ironic. With all these sudden moves the Athletic Department seems to be trying to force the student body to realize what a privilege it is to use what George Plimpton once called "the worst collegiate athletic facilities in the nation...
...world's consummate amateur, George Plimpton, has called signals for the Detroit Lions, played tennis with Pancho Gonzales, boxed with Archie Moore and pitched to Willie Mays-all in the name of journalistic curiosity and publishable profit. "Ernest Hemingway once said that my daydreams were the dark side of the moon of Walter Mitty," says Plimpton, 50. "I agree. It's nightmarish, these sports. They are painful, not joyful." Plimpton's latest joyless endeavor is race-car driving. He is revving up a book about the track and plans to get the feel...
EVEN MORE DISTURBING than the choice of George Plimpton as Class Day speaker was the Class Marshalls' decision this year to involve the senior class only minimally in the selection process. Their undemocratic method, in which seniors were not permitted to vote, found, in Goerge Plimpton, a frivolous, jet-setting member of America's social elite. That Plimpton belongs to the Porcellian--a club that has never admitted a black, let alone a woman--indicates how many seniors will feel comfortable with Plimpton's wisdom on Class Day. We hope that in the future the Class Marshalls will act with...
...Class Day Committee has selected George A. Plimpton '48, author of "Paper Lion," among other works, for the Class Day speakers...
...Plimpton's selection by the Class Day committee prompted Peter A. Anton '77 to say that "it will not be a very scintillating presentation because Plimpton's humour is aimed at the mobile middle class and is more suitable for a talk show...