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With 25 years of coaching Harvard's cross-country team under his belt, Bill McCurdy doesn't expect any new experiences. But last Saturday, McCurdy's harriers gave him a 27-28 victory and a new thrill...
...many an opera buff the music is all well and good, but what really counts is the thrill of encountering a glamorous big-name conductor-such as Paris' Sir Georg Solti (who will conduct Le Nozze di Figaro and Otello) or La Scala's dashing Claudio Abbado (Macbeth, La Cenerentola, Simon Boccanegra). Or being present when an important artist breaks through into international stardom-as, say, Paris' dulcet-voiced soprano Margaret Price (the Countess in Figaro, Desdemona in Otello) may well do this time. Before La Scala and Paris wind up their two-week stands (Paris will...
...Wilshire Hotel. Waiting to play Gucci-footsie with the Georgia peanut farmer were the likes of Diana Ross, Louise Lasser, Peter Falk, Carroll O'Connor and Faye Dunaway. Responding to Beatty's flip comment that the guests were "pinkos, leftists, Commies," Carter quipped, "It is a real thrill to meet the famous people here tonight. I hope I don't get to know too much about you." When Actor Tony Randall noted, "You've never met with people of this level," the Georgian retorted, "That's how I won the nomination...
...National Review, is a conservative who wants to start a third party. But he writes scathingly of some conservatives as "personalities who are simply incapable of participating in a collective effort, especially if that effort requires them to subordinate their own preference to a serious degree. For them, the thrill of political action lies not in the possibility of success, but in the struggle itself or even in defeat. The impact of this masochism upon healthier forms of political action can be catastrophic...
...expression on the conventioneer's face is obviously that of stunned excitement due to 1) the thrill of being in the Big City, 2) the strolling hostess on his far left, 3) the pickpocket to his immediate right, or 4) all of the above...