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...improved 100 per cent talent-wise," says Hunt. "We may not win every meet, but we're going to be as competitive as hell in every single...
...guards industrial secrets, some romance still clings to him. Nicholas Pileggi, a New York-based investigative reporter, has written a book about one authentic private eye. It is a painstaking job, which makes it pleasant to report that while this trim detective has little chance to crack wise with classy dames, there are a few traces of the exotic in his work...
...treachery and lunacy afoot in the councils of government, the gruesome and untimely deaths of several key characters, and a goodly share of promiscuity and homosexuality in high places. The result is another embarassingly improbable but predictable romp through Drury's private fantasy-land, a fanciful world where the wise and stout-hearted members of the establishment fight their usual never-ending holy war against the misguided and often wicked forces of extremism and oppression...
With Gorski out of the picture, the negotiations could move faster. Though Henry Wise '18, attorney for the Patrolmen's Association, said last week "the problem exists independent of the chief," Gorski's departure may change the University's approach to the talks...
Stahr is not simply another Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald was far older when he wrote The Last Tycoon, and the romantic fervor which defined Gatsby has been replaced in Stahr by a "mixture of common sense, wise sensibility, theatrical ingenuity, and a certain half-naive conception of the common weal." A paternalistic employer of the old school, Stahr, like his literary forerunner, is condemned to repeat the past in an age which values only the present moment. In contrast to Gatsby, however, his nemesis is not the carelessness of the very rich but the more modern venality of American capitalism...