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Streep's career had begun, and its record since then has been a matter of theater people of increasing authority repeating those first cries of astonishment. She enrolled at Vassar, then a college for women. In the nonconformist atmosphere of the late 1960s she was able to slop around there in jeans, with an old felt hat pulled down to her ears, and drop her pom-pom girl impersonation for good. She established herself quickly as an actress at Vassar. She never seemed to care especially about being a star, recalls Clinton Atkinson, who directed her in the demanding lead...
...nothing to do with final clubs' selection rituals, or the vodka-loaded slop you drank last Saturday night; this punch belongs exclusively to the women's cross country team. Darlene Beckford and Kristen Linsley, currently Harvard's top two runners, have shared between them first and second place in every harrier meet this fall, and there doesn't appear to be anyone on the horizon who can beat them...
...their history or their myth. Mussolini said: "It is not impossible to govern Italians. It is merely useless." The same thing may eventually be true of Americans. They have too much freedom; without discipline, without a sense of being responsible and useful in the world, their angers spill and slop like battery acids. They have no more justification for their endless social license than the breezes of their appetites, the whims in the glands. The psychological sense of sudden boundaries, all bets off, new rules to be made, stirs old American questions. LaFeber speaks of several kinds of American spirit...
From opening day at Baker Field to the slop of the Brown game to the conquest of Penn, the two have meshed elegantly. "We've been working since the end of August, and we know each other pretty well by now," St. John says. "When he (Horner) runs a pattern, I just know he's going to be there. He's got amazing quickness and an ability to get open...
...much more support; it would just slop over. The question is how much of that reservoir will he have to draw down...