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...feel very sorry for Pennsylvania. For those first five weeks, the Quakers waltzed undefeated. Then Harvard and Yale romped on successive Saturdays, and Philadelphia is as dull as always. Columbia had its moment of glory, beating Cornell, but this week will not feature the Lion's roar. Penn 25, Columbia...
...pithy putdown remains the most effective way to silence a heckler-provided, of course, he is reasonably civilized and relatively quiet. A classic was the riposte by John Wilkes, an 18th century libertine and libertarian, who heard the Earl of Sandwich roar at him in Commons: "I am convinced, Mr. Wilkes, that you will die either of a pox or on the gallows." Wilkes parried: "That, my lord, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your principles." Today, Prime Minister Harold Wilson can also hold his own. When a heckler shouted "Rub bish!" during a 1966 election rally, Wilson...
...tangy weather that makes lyricists write of "autumn in New York." On Fifth Avenue an unending parade of shoppers canvassed the world's most elegant bazaar. The Broadway marquees touted yet another hectic season. From the Battery to The Bronx, the thud of dynamite and the roar of drills accompanied probably the greatest construction boom in the history of cities. No other metropolis in the world offered its inhabitants greater hope of material success or a wider variety of cultural rewards. Yet for all its dynamism and glamour, New York City, day by day, little by little, was sliding...
Total silence. Beck is hunched producing a single beep note that gets louder and louder, Waller adjusts his drums, louder and louder and then with a deafening roar the number ends with one crash of a plunging swathe of richly textured sound. It's a good night at the Boston Tea Party.NICKY HOPKINS...
...contender for the crown. He is, in effect, an ordinary man forced to stand on the sidelines and cheer bitterly. "I fought because I understood, and could not bear to understand, that it was my destiny-unlike that of my father, whose fate it was to hear the roar of the crowd-to sit in the stands with most men and acclaim others. It was my fate, my destiny...