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...Wrestling is not the type of sport where you just stand up in the middle of a locker room and deliver a speech. You have to know each wrestler individually, his personality, his moods," Coleman explained. "Some guys will react to the rah-rah; others you have to leave alone...
...Lacouture and the late Paul Mus, a French-born Yale professor who grew up in Viet Nam. Ho was awfully good at simply dropping out of sight. Too often, as a result, Halberstam has had to make mere chronology do the work of biography. Though he mercifully avoids the rah-rah, gung-Ho, Holy-Ho rhetoric of the New Left, Halberstam makes it clear that he admires his subject. The value of his book lies in the fact that it briskly enumerates Ho's strengths and U.S. weaknesses, Ho's sure manipulative grasp of Vietnamese xenophobia, his deceptive...
...captain Mickey Irvings agreed. "And we're going to do it without the rah-rah spirit. It is a pleasure to fence, and we don't have to scream at other team members to get them motivated. They are motivated, and besides no amount of creaming is going to help anybody," he said...
...scenario is straight out of the Late Late Show. It is the kind of rah-rah rouser that might have starred Pat O'Brien as the coach and Ronald Reagan as Saturday's hero. Yet it all happened-all, that is, except the finale. Last week Jim Plunkett of Stanford University won the Heisman Trophy by a large margin. But the climax of his college career will not come until New Year's Day, when he will lead the Indians to their first Rose Bowl in 18 years. Stanford will meet unbeaten Ohio State in a classic...
Indeed, unlike most conservatives ?and many other politicians of assorted persuasion this year?Buckley attracted thousands of college-age volunteers. Humor helped. One of the party's founders, J. Daniel Mahoney, collected anti-conservative bromides into a rah-rah song...