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...defensive alignment is similar to Harvard's. Yale usually has five linemen, two linebackers, and three defensive backs. The difference is their "monster man" who is a combination of lineman, end, and linebacker. Harvard coaches refer to this formation as an "Oklahoma with a monster...
...abilities and of his immortality, a man who transcended life while still alive, not by mystic experiences, but by facing death and overcoming it. Lifton speaks of a characteristic quality of tone and content that, more than any other, shaped the psychic contours of the Cultural Revolution. I refer to the kind of existential absolute, an insistence upon all or none confrontation with death...
...negotiating team as it wished and to say what it liked about the equality of its members. The genius of the plan was that the other side would be equally free to ignore whatever claims its opponents made. To avoid closer identification of the participants, the two sides would refer to the negotiating parties only as "our side" and "your side...
...caused by the juxtaposition of dated technique and contemporary subject. When it comes to watercolors, his style is equally traditional, and he finds it most unfair that critics who admire his caricatures turn against his watercolors for the same reason. Says he: "It is quite all right to refer to Degas as being 'derived' from Ingres, but if you mention a contemporary painter as being 'derived' from Degas, it is an insult...
Sligar and Son has the air, at least, of being a drama of contemporary racial strife. The setting is a ghetto grocery store in pre-riot Newark. The characters refer to black people as "blacks" and white people as "honkies." Still, I have my doubts as to whether Hoye actually knows any more about the ghetto than Spiro Agnew. His one-act play is not about black power or slum despair or even law and order as much as he would like us to believe it is. Rather, it is the story of a simple white bigot whose son rejects...