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...bikinied chests. The flag has become the emblem of America's disunity, and, in a land where once only wars abroad set it fluttering in vast numbers, the caricature of a new conflict is raging right at home. The old meaning still persists; hardly any American could escape a thrill of pride when Neil Armstrong planted his vertebrate flag on the airless moon. But some Americans could also sympathize with the emotion that moved a student at Kent State to rip down a flag after the shootings. It is as if two cultures, both of them oddly brandishing the same...
...swinging London, that myth invented by journalists, was harmless enough fun-pink frosting for a cultural revolution. Or was it? Booker does not think so. Behind the charming impudence of miniskirts and rock music, behind the justified indignation of Angry Young Men, he detects a less presentable motive: the "thrill that may be derived from sensing a sudden violation of tranquillity or order...
Gallants attend, and hear a friend, Thrill forth harmonious ditty, Strange things I'll tell, which late befell...
...good players were returning from the 1956 team, injuries and dissatisfaction had caused some squad members to quit the squad, and Yovicsin had a mere 33 men on his bench on opening day against Cornell. The biggest thrill of the season was a near upset over Princeton...
...good players were returning from the 1956 team, injuries and dissatisfaction had caused some squad members to quit the squad, and Yovicsin had a mere 33 men on his bench on opening day against Cornell. The biggest thrill of the season was a near-upset over Princeton...