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First the Crimson seemed on the very brink of its top performance against Brown. Against the Bruins the varsity played its best football of the season. Its offense was improved, and with Bill Meigs back in the lineup, the defense should pick up considerably. One suspects that this Saturday it will be on quarterback Bob Brink himself...
Last week, brought back from the brink of the grave by the teamwork of 15 doctors and countless corpsmen, Kirn navigated his first unaided steps down a Bethesda corridor. Most Guillain-Barré victims, if they survive the first critical weeks, regain full use of their muscles. But not many have such a long and arduous way to come back as Bullet Lou Kirn. It had taken him three months even to wiggle his fingers and toes. Now, on a Spartan daily schedule which includes "walks" in the swimming pool, typing to exercise his fingers, pulling on a block...
...snuffs out a cheap cigarette before beginning a speech, tucks the butt behind his ear, then lights it again when he is done talking. He calls himself "the poorest of Brazilian politicians because I am the most honest." In keeping with that role, he goes about clad in a brink-of-tears manner and threadbare, ill-fitting clothes...
...clothes and making sure that the name of Wilde appeared on nothing. Later on, when the boys were at an English-run boarding school in Germany, they found some cricket flannels still marked with their right names and tore out the labels with the desperation of criminals on the brink of discovery. "The thought that at any moment an indiscreet remark or a chance encounter . . . might betray us," writes Vyvyan, "was a sword of Damocles constantly hanging over our heads." In time, to make security even more certain, the boys were separated, Cyril to stay on in Germany, Vyvyan...
...Vries, a writer for The New Yorker, has an acute sense of the absurd and an absurd way of being acute. He has written an amusing, screwball farce. Its moral: vice, in its mysterious ways, may lead a man to virtue- and virtue may lead him to the brink of calamity...