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...fact that several students failed last year's General Examination was seldom even mentioned in the Committee's lengthy deliberation on the Generals; it played no role in the shaping of our proposal. Since our proposal would replace a one-shot exam by a three-part General Examination spread over the entire senior year, the likelihood of failures probably would be reduced. But that is a by-product of our suggestions, not the purpose of them. The Committee's proposal was not designed to keep a handful of students from flunking but to convert a General Examination of dubious value...
...seldom seen ray of sunshine shone in the second period as sophomore Kevin McCall, the team's top scorer, stole the ball from the Brown defense at midfield and pumped it past their unintimidated goalie for the third goal...
...tips were pure gold, but seldom freely proffered. Woodward and Bernstein received no sudden revelation of Watergate's wider dimensions, used no James Bond wiles to score their scoops. They dug out the story in tortuously mined fragments, relying on shrewd hunches, dogged legwork and constant checking. Their efforts paid off on the night of Sept. 28, 1972, when a phone call from an unidentified Government lawyer steered Bernstein to a Tennessee state official, Alex Shipley, who said that he had been approached in June 1971 by Donald Segretti, an Army pal from Viet Nam days. Segretti wanted Shipley...
...expertise ("You've got to know as much about the subject as the men who make the news") and at the same time defended them against querulous editors in New York. Though he might not agree with one of his reporters' interpretation of a story, he seldom tried to impose his own viewpoint...
Prodigies are seldom lovable, and Macaulay was no exception. As a boy he was "loudmouthed and conceited," with a visible "neglect of cleanliness." As an adult he was variously described as a "mean, whitey-looking man" and "an ugly, cross-made, splayfooted, shapeless little dumpling of a fellow." He had two qualities that make a human being a menace at any party-a phenomenal memory and inexhaustible energy. An exasperated hostess once grew so desperate that she switched the conversation to dolls, hoping to shut him up. Alas, Macaulay turned out to be an authority on them...