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...Leonard Ross, The Best is neither the Reader's Digest version of The Best and the Brightest nor a capsule Social Register. The Best is, at bottom-which is just three-quarters of an inch from the top-a shallow smattering of opinion and data based on a surfeit of snobbism and a poverty of research. The professors treat their audience like a class of life's freshmen. They offer no criteria, arbitrarily choosing the Best Book of the Bible (Job), the World's Best Restaurant (France's Pyramide), the Best College at Oxford (Magdalen...
There is a certain giddiness that this movie instills, a sense of being royally entertained. The Three Musketeers is a surfeit of pleasures. It can be said, simply and with thanks, that it is an absolutely terrific movie...
...exhaustion. He said to me this: "Of course it's so of course it's not correct. It isn't right for some of us here to have so much, and others have so little. It isn't right. It isn't necessary. We don't need all this surfeit and excess...
...Prospering Bureaucrats" [Aug. 27] is an ill-advised choice of phrase unless you are prepared to defend its authenticity. As a matter of fact, no career civil service employee in America is suffering from a surfeit of "prosperity" in these or any other times. On the contrary, authoritative wage surveys have repeatedly shown that when viewed alongside his counterparts in private industry, he is on the wrong side of the stick at every turn...
...mile has seemed personally to belong to Harvard's Ric Rojas of late, and the junior is favored again this weekend. There are, however, a surfeit of sub-nine-minute two milers to contend with, so the race could be a wide-open affair, as could the mile with John Quirk...