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...seller. But fame soon turned fickle on him, or maybe vice versa. Mailer was too flighty, impious and vainglorious to fill the role of anointed American writer as the '50s conceived it, so for a while his reputation dimmed. But in the decades that followed, he hit his powerful stride with a new kind of metaphysical journalism and The Armies of the Night, his brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning "nonfiction novel" about the October 1967 antiwar march on the Pentagon. These were the years of Mailer at his most pyrotechnic, when he took up every kind of public intellectual battle...
...Free samples of Stride gum?” asked the two pretty blondes standing outside of the Mass. Ave. CVS last Wednesday afternoon. Passers-by were offered colorful handfuls of sample-sized gum by pairs of young women stationed on either side of the street. Some hold their hands out mechanically to receive the gum, barely breaking their stride, while others ignore the women completely: preoccupied, irritated, or just utterly uninterested. On any given day, the odds of finding freebies of some sort around the intersection of Mass. Ave. and JFK St. are fairly good. While this sort of marketing...
...race. Woodruff's victory--along with nine other black athletes who won medals, including Jesse Owens--was the clearest form of rebuttal to racism both in Nazi Germany, where the Games were held, and at home. Nicknamed "Long John" for his 10-ft. (3 m) stride...
...pieces have come together in his game,” says assistant coach Andrew Rueb ’95. “It’s great to watch somebody hit their stride and take their game to another level. He’s put a lot of work in his first three years, and it’s starting to come to fruition...
...Harvard. In a lot of ways, this is a chance of a lifetime, and that’s exactly what we’re presenting—this education and tradition. We’re hopeful that the kids we’re targeting are taking that in stride. So far, we’re very pleased with the results.”Expected to join the team are center Frank Ben-Eze from Arlington, VA., shooting guard Max Kenyi from Silver Spring, MD., point guard Oliver McNally from Ross, CA., and power forward Peter Boehm from Winnetka...