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...indictment of intercollegiate athletics at selective colleges. It is another piece of our aristocratic athletic heritage to pretend that true athletes, amateur athletes, are dispassionate about their sports and uninterested in perfecting their skills. In reality, athletic excellence is a thing of beauty and grace. Its devoted pursuit can dignify the athlete and inspire the observer. Instead, our athletes are objects of economic discrimination and public contempt that would not be tolerated if directed against any other group of students. They are the last students who can be openly stereotyped without protest from the student body or the University...
...expecting the federal government to do the job for them. Finally, students themselves should take greater responsibility for their education. What makes college so valuable in the first place is the opportunity that it affords students to define their own academic paths and devote their efforts to the pursuit of true interests. Accountability, then, should be stressed not only on an institutional level, but also on an individual one; the onus ultimately falls on the students themselves to make their college learning experience a meaningful...
...result, rhythm becomes a dramatic device, one that clearly delineates the border between honest and sarcastic lyrics. Nowhere is this more true than on “Rough Gem.” The first two verses employ the metaphor of diamond mining to illustrate the the dogged pursuit of a dream. Aptly named singer Diamond assumes the voice of that fantasy, suggesting that “you can scoop out my brain, shape it into an ear and then tell me your pain.” However, the staccato snare drum and terse eighth-note basslines give the impression that...
Besides entertaining monarchs, Lady Montdore’s greatest focus in life is orchestrating an excellent marriage for her daughter Polly. But in this pursuit, Lady Montdore’s social maneuvering begins to fail...
Under Cedric’s devoted guidance, Lady Montdore finds a new meaning in life—the pursuit of her own beauty. She spends hours each day in steam baths and facial masks, and for the first time, she is happy. By the time Polly returns to England, unhappy in her marriage with the perpetually unfaithful Boy, Lady Montdore has forgotten all former unpleasantness. She has a comically indifferent reconciliation with her only daughter and the novel closes with a most unorthodox arrangement of lovers...