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...have here the dystopia of youth run wild, of children armed only with remote controls ruling the world. It is hard to tell whether this is a real fear of Hicks' or simply a nagging sour feeling from spending too many hours yelling at spoiled teenagers from the suburbs. Still, this is a common enough concern. Robert Bly, for one, has written of the dangers of living in a world without active rites of passage. According to such thinkers, we live in a world of manchildren, of overgrown high-chair tyrants...
Much to the staff's chagrin, final clubs won't wither away any time soon. The staff's position in just a manifestation of the sour grapes gnashing between the bitter teeth of those who aren't invited to the clubs...
...many ways, Kemp was the victim of a passive-aggressive behavior characteristic of a divided and sour G.O.P.: Dole and his top aides won't say what they want, then get angry when they don't get it. Republicans get angry at Dole and take it out on Kemp. "A lot of Republicans had already decided this campaign was going down, but at least felt good that we had a strong candidate for 2000," says Ed Rollins, who managed Kemp's 1988 effort. "You'd hear, 'If only we had Jack at the top of the ticket...
...models' bangs or only hair gel caking? When Goldin descends below the taboo line, she's not just down there on a visit. She lives there, or she has. She reminds us of what the real world at night looks like, full of bright light but also sour light and scenes that wouldn't sell much cologne. Friends on the toilet is one of her subthemes. So are blunt sex and bad housekeeping...
...Princeton are expressing interest as well, although I'd bet that their interest stems from polite false humility and that they won't be too active in the crusade to dump the rankings. Although one of the organizers of the Stanford coalition denies that this movement stems from "sour grapes," it's pretty clear that bitter envy is the driving force behind the effort to reform the rankings. Had Stanford been ranked number one, no one from Stanford would be whining...