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...logic of the absurd, Kepesh is a huge success-a post-Freudian wonder who no longer needs to adjust to civilization's discontents. As he comes to realize this, he assumes the arrogance of the chosen and decides to milk his uniqueness for all the pleasure and celebrity it is worth. "This, my friend," he cries, "is the Land of Opportunity in the Age of Self-Fulfillment, and I am David Alan Kepesh, the Breast, and I will live by my own light!" Visions of big money and fame join his fantasies...
...Well I was thinking...all those things didn't get together last year, except for one sweet moment in the Yale game, so maybe it takes time, even here, to adjust to new approaches. Football is football, even at Harvard, and you can't revamp the whole thing in a year. Maybe this is the year that it'll come around. That's that makes sports the life of America. Hugh. It gives people something to look forward...
...system was not immediately successful, as anyone who sat (and yawned) through many an unexciting afternoon at the Stadium could tell. Restic wanted to bring excitement to Harvard football, but he discovered "that you can't revolutionize a tradition" as old and inbred as Yovicsin's. Harvard didn't adjust to the new way of doing things as readily as one might expect, and the resulting 5-4 season was testimony to the mundane rather than to the exciting...
...CHURCH. "The only hope of America is the fundamentalist church, where the people teach the word of God and not the word of man. Some churches I can't get into-some of these modernist churches. They're trying to get God to adjust to man rather than man to adjust...
...race, and of human rights. The other detectives whom he encounters in the 16th Squad don't possess quite the same sensitivities. There is Seidensticker, a mammoth black man who calls Bo by his full name. Beauregard, and who is almost paternal toward him. He patiently helps Bo adjust to a job which doesn't always run parallel to written law, but Seidensticker poses an enigma to Bo because of all the detectives on the squad, he is most ruthless with blacks...