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...event was seeded as richly as Wimbledon's famed Center Court, and the first seed was naturally Australia's Roy Emerson. Splendid on grass, he is quite likely the best amateur tennis player in the world. Besides, he seemed to own Wimbledon; he had won the All-England men's singles title in 1964 and 1965, and his victory this year was something of a foregone conclusion...
...splendid new building was not completed without tears. Originally scheduled for completion July 1, 1966, Hilles Library opened September 26--with its reserve book system, coffee shop, language lab, music library, and cinema theater unfinished...
...music together, pouring out the big, lush organ-like sound that is the maestro's trademark. While Stokowski's days as the glamour boy of the podium are behind him, the long slender hands still dance like birds when he conducts, the silver mane still shakes in splendid disarray, the great craggy profile still sparks a response. And as always, he still juggles the orchestra's seating arrangements to gain special effects, still edits Beethoven and Brahms to suit his own taste...
...editors of The Carleton Miscellany had what they thought was a splendid idea. Why not ask the editors of other "little magazines" what they thought they were really accomplishing? Perhaps the answers would contain some thing "interesting" or "revealing" or "important." In high hopes, the Carleton College intellectuals circulated a questioning letter among their fellows- the men who put out those literary-intellectual reviews that cater to a few thousand readers. The answers were certainly revealing...
...epigraph, the author quotes Dylan Thomas' splendid hymn to his dying father: "Do not go gentle into that good night. / Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage rage against the dying of the light. . . ." Perhaps Simone de Beauvoir's rage against death was, as it explicitly was for Dylan Thomas, a form of prayer...