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...spirit in general, when a dozen Ken and Barbie Dolls with "H's" on their chests are yipping, "Let's get ROWDEE?" Do we want to compete with the UMass color guard and baton twirlerettes? Doesn't anyone have any pride in final club snobbery anymore? In the Hahvahd sneer? In smoke-filled coffee houses...
Hard-core runners who zip by usually sneer at us. I know those lean, muscled and intense women are mentally belittling us for not being purists, for diverting our minds to enjoyable thoughts while our call muscles strain. I contend that if the Beatles or The Cars make the difference for me between running and walking. I'm going to continue to "Let the Good Times Roll...
Second, the conservatives themselves concede that adults have confused two trends: the emergence of some serious dissent among generally liberal student bodies on the East Coast and what Higgins calls "this rising, this nauseating preppydom." Disavowing all connections to the legions of Lacoste, Higgins says with a sneer. "Those people aren't conservatives; those people are drunks...
...news begun overhauling its old way of presenting stories. Perhaps this is one reason why CBS, best and haughtiest of the news organizations, has gone to its sports division to find the new head of CBS News, Van Gordon Sauter, 46. CBS and NBC were the first to sneer 4½ years ago, when ABC chose its sports wonder Roone Arledge to head both ABC News and Sports. Arledge sent Sauter a wry congratulatory telegram, suggesting that CBS obviously knew the right place to look for a new news boss...
Fish is aware of the stereotypes which some people apply to football players. "I think people ought to be fair to football players and not discriminate against them," he says. "Professors seem to sneer at them. Back in my time, three of us took a course in the Divinity School, and we all got A's," Fish recalls. "But none of the 22 regular students did as well as us. Football players can get As too. They are Harvard students...