Word: whimperers
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Kornbluth doubts that many of the plans will materialize. "Most seniors are willing to go out with a whimper," he said
Crimson bats, which had boomed all over the league last year, have managed scarcely a whimper this season. Only two Harvard starters are batting over .300. The pitching has been generally good, however, and in an attempt to halt the Tigers, Coach Norm Shepard will start ace Ray Peters...
...death. She had been given a sedative, she says, and as Dr. Johnston snaps his fingers she remembers being wakened. "The baby cry again," she says. "The baby needs to be feeded, and got to get the bottle. The baby was crying." Now her voice becomes a whimper. "He was crying. He was crying. I said what's wrong with you. The baby's sick. The baby's sick. The baby's sick." She sobs hard. "Help! The baby's mouth! It's getting dark. I don't know...
...ideals we are taught to respect and cherish broken and flaunted in our faces in our own backyard, we don't act. I refer to the manner in which Cambridge and Boston police have managed to arrest 32 people for selling Avatar without so much as a whimper from the Harvard community. What were they arrested for? For not having a peddling permit? But didn't I hear that they had tried to obtain the permits? Oh, but it's obscene is it? Who are you kidding? Do you mean those colorful four letter words in the center-fold...
From foolish permissiveness to foolish repressiveness, too many American middle-class parents careen downward from the joys of birth to the final whimper, "What did we do wrong?" The hard answer is that failed parents tend to be failed people who use children for their own emotional hang-ups. They never stop, look or listen to the kids; they never grasp that parenthood is a full-time job, perhaps the most important job in a chronically changing America. They never see the challenge: teaching a child integrity-the self-respect that makes for strong, kind men and women...