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Owen was asked what he thought about the popular distinction between the "intellectual" and the "jock" at Harvard. "Rather than that, let's make the distinction between the jock and the athlete," he replied, insisting that the implications of the loaded term "jock" unduly smear many valuable citizens and serious students who happen to participate in athletics. Only a handful of students qualify for the unattractive term "jock," Owen noted, declaring that too many gentlemen get lumped together and become identified with the reputations and actions of the few--a strikingly small minority. "I suppose there are a few students...
...Dining Hall pundits are already estimating his chances of filling the 70,000-name petition necessary to put him on the ballot. The wags are coining such slogans as "Stu is Thru," and if the professor begins to look like a vote-getter he can expect a red smear...
Walt Dressier is the reluctant candidate. He is a smalltown lawyer, has ideals, and spouts them. His supporters, including Emil Hornstein, his campaign manager, listen with horrified dismay and, unlike the reader, bury their misgivings. The plot is hand-me-down-hostile columnist, incriminating photograph, Communist smear-and between, Traver rambles on with flatfooted passion about half a hundred worthy causes dear to his heart. So dear to his heart, in fact, that Traver (in real life John Voelker) resigned as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court to write this book. He should have stayed on the bench...
...Kennedy is a sort of prize-fighter too, but he seems at least able to deal with the concepts he uses as weapons; Mr. Nixon, by contrast, simply beats his enemies over the head with them, and rarely fails to call the utterances of the opposition irresponsibility or smear. At one point he even attacks, for reasons impossible to guess at, what he calls positivists, pragmatists, and "ethical neutralists...
...example, the KKK-sponsored magazine cites the "President of the Harvard University Student Body, [who] is what the Communists and mind-washed brain trusters refer to as an extreme right-winger. Attempts have been made to smear this young man, a Mr. Phillips, and to give him the silent treatment even in the campus newspaper, the CRIMSON...