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...unwillingness of any of the authors to consider fully a Harvard student's raison d'etre--the process of acquiring an education. Although this gap in the authors' perspective is somewhat disturbing it can hardly be taken as evidence that all the authors think learning is outside the sphere of the Harvard undergraduate...
...Democratic Party--conservatism and pragmatic experimentation. He also launches into a forceful attack on the Government's security investigations--both under the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations. Despite these important subjects, however, Acheson, as prime author of the Containment Policy, perhaps speaks most authoritatively and most controversially in the sphere of foreign affairs...
...monarch's task ... I feel sorry that arrangements have not been made to allow my being presented to the Emperor, whom I dare hope might have been interested to meet a man who had had some experience in controlling men and affairs, though of course in quite another sphere...
Uncle Robbie settled under the diving speck that dropped toward his hands. But the big sphere whipped through his hands and burst in a fine mess against his chest. He dropped, covered with pulp and grapefruit juice. "Jesus!" he moaned, sitting on the sand, his eyes squeezed shut...
...head, or Uncle Robbie catching that grapefruit. He can be the fading shortstop who can't go to his left any more-he will do a stiff-legged dance in the direction of an invisible ball; his face will break into naive wonderment as the phantom sphere whistles past. He thinks nothing of ruining a good suit of clothes to make his point. This summer, after the All-Star game in Milwaukee, he acted out that 1923, inside-the-park...