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...delivered by Philo, tell us Antony has already hit bottom--and that's where he stays. He is no longer a great man: he is vicious and sadistic; he shows signs of incipient alcoholism; his military judgement (not even Shakespeare makes credible his decision for a sea battle) and prowess (he even bungies his suicide) are quite gone. Once in a while we are told that Antony was great; Shakespeare should have shown us--but, since he didn't the actor somehow should, and this Ryan fails to do. Ryan does not even make anything of Antony's one superb...
...brawn. "Inexcusable stupidity," wrote she. "I fully expect upon returning to M.H.S. to be faced with a course in stone axes and spears, in which no doubt I will be given another C." Charlene is not unathletic: last year she won a women's golf tournament, and her prowess at girls' softball kept her on the honor roll for two quarters this year...
What kept standards high? Answers Marson: the detailed high-school curriculum prescribed by the powerful College Entrance Examination Board of the time, and the fact that Harvard accepted boys only for academic excellence. But around 1935, Harvard added nonacademic admission criteria: photographs, social poise, athletic prowess. "The real crusher" came in the 1940s when Harvard and other College Board members abolished the old essay examinations (in all subjects) and "substituted the present objective and objectionable tests of today...
...more than mere money; he plays it out of love. His ambition is to cement his place in golfing history by building up a record of victories in the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open and the P.G.A. Fellow professionals need no such dramatic proof of Palmer's prowess: they already rank him as golfing's best...
Khrushchev's space challenge was underrated from the beginning by the U.S.?and it still is. But the very show of technical prowess helped prove how the West's pundits had underrated the appeal of independence and liberty in the so-called battle for men's minds. To millions of the world's uncommitted peoples, Communism's ability to master space was less impressive than its inability to master its own nature?and the symbol of Communism in 1959 was not that of Red rockets reaching for stars, but of Red China reaching brutally into Tibet and India...