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Critizing the dangerous slide towards professionalism that college sports was taking. Gramatti asserted that sports in the Ivy League had gollen out of hand, teaching "a lack of proportion." Gramatti said. "The result of the disproportion is, in my opinion, that some students, and not a trivial number, spend for...
That sense of disproportion has skewed judgments about Watergate ever since, has left an impression in many minds that Watergate was essentially an injustice to the Nixon Administration. That is certainly Nixon's own official opinion. In a 1978 appearance at the Oxford Union in England, Nixon put Watergate...
This portion of the book accounts for the most puzzling disproportion in Disturbing the Universe. Freeman Dyson is a proven scientific commodity. Robert Oppenheimer hailed his successful synthesis of two seemingly irreconcilable but equally correct theories of the electron as one of the century's breakthroughs. Now the Alfred P...
If it isn't the question of stock ownership, what can justify this disproportion? I think there were two answers given in the debate last time given by Professors Walzer and Higonnet. Prof. Walzer said he would have emphasized rather more the particular cruelty and the particular degradation that was...
On his world renown: With fame I become more and more stupid, which, of course, is a very common phenomenon. There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is. With me, every peep becomes a trumpet solo.