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Stassen is a monument to American perseverance; it's just a shame he didn't know when to quit. His hopeless quests for the presidency have become such a part of American folklore that sports writers often refer to habitual losers like the Red Sox or pre-Moses '76ers as the Stassens of their league...
...team was known variously as the Old Gold Knights, the Antelopes or the Bug-eaters. This last unfortunate appellation stuck, as to the grille and windshield of passing automobiles, until around 1900 a Lincoln sportswriter decided Bugeaters was not a proper nickname for the players and began to refer to them as Cornhuskers. Coach Jumbo Stiehm's teams, vintage 1911-15, alternately called the Cornhuskers and the Stiehm Rollers, were regularly undefeated against the likes of Notre Dame. During the 1920s, Knute Rockne's Four Horsemen lost to the Cornhuskers twice. Nebraska employed legendary Coaches Fielding Yost before...
...fixed on a view, he would contradict it." Novelist Julian Symons remembers "a quality of perversity" in Orwell: "He had a characteristic directness which upset people and made him a lot of enemies." Malcolm Muggeridge recalls a man "who utterly despised intellectuals and people he used to refer to, scornfully, as wearing sandals. And yet he was an intellectual...
...exception and claims that everyone is welcome to join night make one wonder about how he conceives of women. In what category of existence would he place women. so that it would he logical to make the statement "all are welcome." (Without another relevant, the word "all" must here refer to "people.") Does such thinking betray the true attitude of the Pi? And is it this attitude which explains how Mr. Grant could be so blinded to reality that he could hold up for praise this attitude of exclusion, claiming that it "prevents the accusation of [the Pi] being exclusive...
...notes, exhaustive research was undertaken for this book," and while this is apparently so, it is manifested in a particularly disappointing manner. Province sculpts his book from a mass of quotations linked by his own commentary, rarely stopping to place the reader in context. One can scarcely refer to Province's resources, as there is neither index nor footnotes. The reader is left with an often compelling version of the Patton story, as told by the author, without the chance to question his point of view...