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...North: "Honey, I sure hope the colored don't win. They've winned so much around the South. Why, you go down and get on a bus, and a nigger's just liable to sit right down beside you. Oh, that's hurt Birmingham somethin' awful." Neither Malcolm X nor the Birmingham waitress represents the majority of their races. But they do represent and symbolize two fixed positions: the Negro who looks with eagerness toward a militant solution, and the unyielding Southerner who hopes not to be further disturbed. There are many other positions...
...National League that had never been shut out. Last week, that went, too, when they lost, 2-0, to the Philadelphia Phillies-the club that had set a modern National League record for frustration last year by losing 23 straight games. For Stengel, it was the last straw. "Somethin' hasta be solved around here real quick," said Casey, and he put every man on the Mets roster on the trading block-even slugging Outfielder Frank Thomas, who was enjoying the best season of his big-league careeer (.307 batting average, 13 homers). Yet by week's end, even...
...know that I was ever a confirmed farmer." he drawls. "But you grow up doin' somethin', and you don't shake it. Physical inactivity just bugs me no end. and that's somethin' you don't suffer from on the farm...
...wanna know somethin'?" a Harvard tennis fan remarked to a fellow when the last score came in. "Fair Harvard--well, we just didn't have it today. No sir, we sure didn...
...method of explaining the Ivy League's uniqueness, the result is detrimental to the school's image, which has ever been too healthy anyway. Birmingham's treatment of the hackneyed surface characteristics serves to reinforce nearly all the prevailing myths about the Ivy League, and his recourse to the "somethin' else" explanation leaves the impression that the League is bathed in mystic snottiness...