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DARTMOUTH-COLUMBIA--The Big Green, unfortunately, are back in business. The Dartmouth win over Harvard worked like silicone for the Greenies, inflating their confidence and boosting their title stock. Columbia, with the resignation of Frank Navarro, will be loose as sloth with diarrhea. But it won't help. The Greenies will feel their oats for the first time in a long time. Dartmouth 37, Columbia...
...shrill hope, if not of heaven, at least of Judgment Day. He was also civilized, witty and endlessly inventive. He could write of himself without being a bore, recording "Thoughts of his own death/ like the distant roll/ of thunder at a picnic," wryly admitting that "Gluttony and Sloth have often protected him from Lust and Anger," and boasting gently that he was not vain "except about his knowledge of metre and his friends...
Thus a theoretical point was scored for the ancient opponents of "welfare chiselers." Of course, it would take a Ph.D. in bureaucracy and creative sloth for a harried family to collect such riches. All the same, it does turn the work ethic upside down. The real issue is not so much those who avoid work as those who seek it and cannot find it-those husbandless mothers in particular who, for lack of day-care centers, cannot go to a job even when one is available...
...because as soon as I try to redefine the word I lose my case. The difference is that four years ago a feminist defined herself in opposition to the square sexist world. She was a naysayer to a tradition of role playing grown dyspeptic, practicing toughness instead of timidity, sloth instead of chic, either anti-sex or sexually liberated. Today the trap is complicity...
...easier to appreciate Senator Ervin's counterpoint. After a year of judicial sloth, he and his colleagues argued, television has actually accelerated justice. Facts that seemed irretrievable are now brought out in microseconds. Mystery figures are exposed as quite ordinary men. The conspiracy and cover-up no longer seem the work of shrewd political masterminds. Indeed, the figures on the screen are frightening not for their brilliant malevolence but because of their very ordinariness...