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...audience sat in shocked silence, Mansfield stepped back to the podium and completed his introduction of Will in a calm voice. Although he did not refer directly to the protest, he did note that Will had "the fortune of not belonging to the Harvard family of feminists and other quacks." His remark was met by a wave of applause from the audience...
...hour speech entitled "What's Wrong with Liberalism." Sandel offered a half-hour rebuttal called "What's Wrong with Conservatism," after which Mansfield spoke briefly. The three lecturers discussed points in each others' speeches and took questions for an additional half hour. At no point did any of them refer to the demonstration...
...students. Instead of congratulating her on her thrift and industry, Michael Kinsley nitpicked about reverse discrimination and quotas [ESSAY, Aug. 28]. One hears scant protest when wealthy alumni donate far greater sums to the Harvards and Yales of America for the benefit of wealthy whites. How quickly white people refer to the Constitution and equal opportunity when their interests are even minutely affected. In this instance there is no need for debate. McCarty has been a good and faithful citizen in a land where, for nonwhites, love of country has been rewarded with scorn. I applaud the McCartys...
...term "Wall Street" will become archaic slang, like Route 66--instead we'll refer to "Marquette Avenue," home of the Minnesota Stock Exchange. The big entrepreneurs--the Buffetts, the Eisners, the Gateses--will jet off to Minnesota to line up financing for their future moves. And one day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned--lock, stock and roulette wheel--by Lutheran Brotherhood and must renegotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120 for a suit...
McMurtry has a fine time with youthful damnfoolishness, and so does the reader. The young Rangers are randy and daft, and so coltish around women that, as in Lonesome Dove, they refer to sexual congress as a "poke." Call and McCrae survive by dumb luck, though it's not clear by adventure's end that either has learned a dime's worth of sense. In fact, they are still...