Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale Ivy League championship. It would be the second in a row, don't forget, and that is something. Try to keep out of your mind the fact that Harvard is on the brink of winning its first outright Ivy title. That causes all sorts of anxiety...
...wins in a row, more than any other college in the country. The great thing about breaking a winning streak is that the team that loses has to start all over again. It is as though those other 16 games did not count, and Yale is beginning again, back to 1701, from scratch...
Accomplishing, on the other hand, only begs more accomplishing. It is empty and unsatisfying. So what if Yale wins 17 in a row? It will want 18. So what if Yale wins its second title in a row? It will want a third. Accomplishing whets the appetite for consumption, for more and more meaningless consumption...
...patronizing attitude toward low-budget travel. "What about the bargain-basement Continent of $1 rooms, 500 meals and 250 drinks?" reads the introduction. "Yes, you can ferret out those places?just as the visitor to New York City can ferret out a bed along the Bowery's Skid Row and a 250 meal at a soup kitchen. But you are an American." Fielding's people obviously are not Frommer's people. But they are undoubtedly more influential than Frommer's. But what's more, they believe in Fielding, and belief often borders on adoration...
Lennon, the senior Beatle, is ecstatic about Klein. As Lennon told TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath in Appie's Savile Row headquarters: "He's only been here three months, and he's sorted out seven years of crap. This guy talks our language. He just says, 'Where is it?' and 'When do I get it?' and 'How much do the tax boys take?' It's as simple as that...