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...Barré victims, if they survive the first critical weeks, regain full use of their muscles. But not many have such a long and arduous way to come back as Bullet Lou Kirn. It had taken him three months even to wiggle his fingers and toes. Now, on a Spartan daily schedule which includes "walks" in the swimming pool, typing to exercise his fingers, pulling on a block and tackle loaded with weights, and twisting a wrist roller, Captain Kirn is mending fast and hopes to attend the Navy-Columbia game this week...
...although not intentionally so, I am sure, is cruelly misleading. Your phrase, "born into grinding poverty in the Mississippi backwoods," connotes a "Tobacco Road" environment. Like most formerly affluent Southern families, following the Civil War, his was impoverished financially, but his were the riches of the influence of a Spartan but cultured mother and a cherished heritage from his father, a Confederate cavalry officer. Your statement that he "roared around town yelling 'Hiya, boy' " is simply not true. He was not uncouth, as suggested, but very much a gentlemanly man. E. H. CRUMP JR. Memphis...
...noon, those Spartan enough to forego an early lunch may take Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s popular course in American intellectual history, History 169. With one of the most interesting and varied reading lists in the college, 169 will emphasize the intellectual background behind U.S. historical events, as well as dispelling high school misconceptions about American history...
...Edinburgh he took lodgings with two other Americans, and impressed them with his Spartan indifference to the deficiencies of Scottish heating, his zeal for theology, and his scrupulousness about accounting for every groat he spent from the trust fund in Philadelphia on which he was drawing...
Knowledge. The Americans, say the British, do not know the world. Indeed, they did not-and some appalling blunders resulted. U.S. education is ill-suited for foreign affairs, 19th century style. The educated Briton is reared for debate and negotiation as the Spartan for the spear. A good British Foreign Office man can, by effortless intuition, absorb the essence of a political crisis from a bubble of cocktail conversation. Americans will never be good at that. They will set up a million-dollar study project to find out what a Briton would learn by asking a girl...