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...passion that it seems more important that anything else. He, who never existed, dreams back to a world of chivalry and personal trust which also never existed. His language should be direct and unequivocal; but Chapman and Coxe have given him too many flowery metaphors, words he should never utter. Yet Stewart is able to put the general's spirit into these lines...
Evidently, this is another attempt to assert the utter superiority and distinctiveness of the ectomorph--in Harvard's world, at any rate. Everyone knows that the seats in the Stadium, at New Lecture Hall, and at the Indoor Athletic Building were designed solely to accommodate ectomorphs. Now it appears that the style sultans in New York and London are making clothes expressly designed to shrink the masculine form...
...called in by Mr. Conant in the spring of his third year, he expected a polite handshake and best wishes in his new job, wherever that might be. When Conant offered him the job at Lowell House, Perkins recalls that he was so surprised that he could only utter a one-word expletive, which would hardly bear repeating...
...Mamie continued to resist the blandishments of social Washington, stayed mostly at home (their only outing: a preview of a film on the life of Mahatma Gandhi), but during the week the President asked some more Congressmen to lunch. To their utter surprise, House Democrats were included in the guest list, and the White House announced that eventually every Democrat as well as every Republican in Congress (and Maverick Wayne Morse too) would be invited to one of the frequent luncheons...
Duggan himself, like Felix a man in a niche (he is the expert on armor for the British Natural History Museum), is not one to discuss politics as such. But 15 centuries from home, he can utter a refined razzberry at some noteworthy blunderers of the past...