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According to Sam Butler, tri-captain of the Indoor Track team, the story is pretty valid. "Four years ago, Bob Clayton, who ran the 1000, challenged McCurdy to a push-up contest. Clayton did 150 and it looked bad for the Coach...
...while Ghosts isn't valid literature it's damn good theater. Outstanding performance and direction welded to a fine technical production make this a rare Loeb animal, a natural and naturalistic winner...
...prolific novelist, playwright and short story writer did not compose those lines specifically for his headstone, as others have somewhat snidely suggested, but O'Hara would have accepted them as a valid summation of his work. Throughout his 40 odd years on the American literary scene, O'Hara lobbied openly for the critical acclaim he felt was due him, and watched in frustration as he was passed over, time and time again, for Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Wolfe and Steinbeck...
...excess of democracy which has hamstrung government and, citing Tocqueville, identifies the current political threat as the "tyranny of the majority." He draws a distinction between public opinion and popular opinion, praising the former as something more than the mere "whole of a majority of actual, living voters." Valid democracy is "historic, tradition-anchored and 'corporate'." Sounding like a Prussian Junker, Nisbet, a genteel tenured member of the Columbia faculty, identifies perhaps his greatest fear for the future of his nation: ". . . the aggregate we call the mass or crowd, always oscillating between anarchic and military forms of despotism...
David said Yale's decision to adopt an early action program grew in part out of an experimental rolling decision program Yale has run for Connecticut residents in the past. "We found that we were able to reach valid decisions in November," he said...