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...former President's position in its recommendations is hardly surprising in light of its self-confessed lack of "stamina". This admission appears to serve as a convenient excuse for not delving into the detailed environmental, aesthetic, and technical aspects of the complex Storm King proposal. It also shelters the shallow thinking which assumes that problems which fall on the University's doorstep will disappear if they are simply ignored. The assumption is as dangerous as it is vacuous...
...institutional goals. It is also infinitely more important for the College to assemble a talented, motivated student body and a faculty of the highest intellectual distinction. With these ingredients, the experience of college will usually prove interesting and valuable to the student. Without them, the experience will probably be shallow and uninspiring however carefully the institution's goals are defined. For these reasons, I can argue for paying closer attention to our purposes while still emerging from my first year in office with a feeling of awe and respect for the richness of talent and activity that gives such value...
...memoirs, and is said to have doubled the size of his personal fortune (usually estimated at more than $20 million, including land, cattle, airplanes, banks and radio stations). But mostly he devoted himself to his 330-acre ranch, occasionally helping to lay pipe in the middle of the shallow Pedernales and gradually building up his cattle herds through shrewd trading at local livestock auctions. He would come home at ten in the evening, tired and dung-booted, to tell his guests about the price of beef and about egg production problems. "He's become a goddam farmer...
...charm of John Held Jr.'s prototypical leggy flappers or dulled the gaiety of their cork-nosed, raccoon-coated boy friends. This well-produced selection also includes his little-known, deft watercolors and woodcut cartoons that gently mock the 1890s ("Horse whipping the masher and good for him"). Shallow stuff, but as Held would say, ah, those dear dim days...
Both Disraeli and Nixon were rather elusive figures in their native land-the one a Sephardic Jew who, as Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb puts it, "created himself in the likeness of an anti-Semitic cartoon," though he became an Anglican; the other a man who often seemed shallow and without strong roots. Both made their contemporaries uneasy for reasons that could not always be spelled out. Each in his time was underestimated by others, Disraeli because of his rakish dilettantism, Nixon because of his bland ordinariness. Both were dismissed as opportunists; few perceived the fire within. Neither of them ever gave...