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Reviewing the splits, the irony of the whole situation becomes apparent. Craig Peterson, Princeton's second man, could not equal the lifetime best 1:41 clocking he turned in during the afternoon heats. He split 1:43. Everyone else on both relays swam 1:42.2 or better...
...idea of a people assembled has historically given them an aura of political legitimacy. A national assembly toppled the ancien regime in France, and it was a national convention to revise the Articles of Confederation that decided 200 years ago to start from scratch instead and create a whole new law for the land...
...with some of the voters. The club held a second election, which was also thrown out, this time because some members cast proxy ballots, which are not permitted by the club constitution. "By that time we had wasted the better part of the semester," Artson said last week. "The whole thing resulted in a lot of bad publicity, so we lived without a vice president until the new board was elected in February," he added. No one noticed the difference...
...hope it works," a club member mused recently, "because for a few months they were fighting among themselves as much as the whole damn Democratic party does...
Happily, Chapter Two is not quite as grim as its plot: characteristic Simon wit surfaces frequently. For instance, when George accuses Leo of fixing him up with a prostitute, his brother indignantly defends the girl, and then asks. "Why, did she charge you?" On the whole, however. Simon avoids his usually relentless parade of quips. Chapter Two possesses none of the slick quality that mars some of his earlier plays, which made his characters sound like professional stand-up comedians, not believable human beings. Instead, the humor approaches the way people actually talk or joke, and even helps to crystallize...