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...DiCara, a senior at Harvard, is taking his first step into real-world, elective politics. He has started organizing a campaign which he hopes will put him on the Boston City Council. The election is in November, when DiCara will be a tender 22 years...
WILLIAM JAMES created a useful basis for analysis when he divided people into two groups, the tough-minded and the tender-minded. The distinction is not one between hard-headedness and sentimentality, but between a certain intellectual coherence and a sort of scatterbrained intellectuality. However you use the term "tough-minded," though, it clearly is applicable to Robert Brustein. He is a man who has fought for an intellectually respectable program at the Yale Drama School, where he is dean, and also one whose commentaries in the New Republic and elsewhere are extremely forthright and even acidulous, betraying taints...
...tender-youth's first calls,- Longer calls...
...cursing to induce that calf to leave the track. It only meandered slowly along, just a "lectle grain ahead." They all returned finally to the train. Bill furiously swearing, "By the holy horns of Beelzebub, if I bust my biler, I'll run that blasted critter down." The tender was emptied into the boiler, and the fireman sat on the safety-valve, and we ploughed along like an enraged elephant whose legs have been cut off by a circular saw. Still that calf kept a "lectle mite ahead," now and then playfully tapping the boiler front with its hind feet...
...Love Story has a few tender moments. The rest is sarcasm, one-upmanship and slang. People must be starved for tenderness to rate the story so high in romance...