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...class people go on their days off and drink beer and wave pennants and watch a baseball game." Nowhere but in America-and Japan and South Korea and the Dominican Republic and Cuba, and so what? Let her feel patriotic when she watches the Dodgers play ball. The Olympic torch had nothing to do with patriotism either; indeed, it is a symbol of supranationalism. But as the torch zigzagged among them from east to west this summer, people waved flags, cried and sang America the Beautiful...
...Arts and Sciences, whose circulation has flowed smoothly, if somewhat sluggishly, since the argumentative sixties, will receive a hefty injection of new blood this fall. In the most notable of a series of administrative changes, 11-year veteran Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky this July handed the torch to 40-year-old wunderkind A. Michael Spence. In addition to learning the ropes in his new role, the former chairman of the Economic Department is acting as his own associate deans for undergraduate and graduate education...
...kill old people, children and women; they would not aim their artillery at innocent people." The Communists, by contrast, massacred civilians. Worst of all, when government troops finally broke through to Dobanday, a Soviet adviser marched into the central mosque, tore up the Koran and put a torch to the building...
...statism, to more and more Government largesse ... The alternative is the dream conceived by our founding fathers, up, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society." He concluded with a rambling evocation of the new patriotic spirit conveyed by the passage of the Olympic torch across America...
...some delirious need to wave American flags has surfaced, fanning a passion previously associated with burning them. The sentimental tears and cheers of the pre-Olympic torch run turned into unembarrassed howls and shrieks last week for U.S. medalists taking a transcontinental victory lap from Los Angeles to Washington to New York to Disney World to Dallas. "I thought they'd be bored with us by now," said Steve Lundquist, the swimmer. "This is fantastic...