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...with bright new uniforms, and he liked to appear on horseback at the head of his troop on the King's birthday. Then, on the fourth anniversary of the Boston Massacre, he publicly denounced the British with Ciceronian fervor: "Ye dark, designing knaves; ye murderers, parricides! How dare you tread upon the earth which has drank in the blood of slaughtered innocence...
Neither the son from the Class of '06 who drowned on the Titanic nor his mother who donated the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library in his name would dare venture now beyond the confines of Harry's Memorial Room. The sheer chaos of life, of Harvard graduates--once the only students allowed to use the huge facility--having to share carrols or "stalls" as they are affectionately called, with undergraduates and visiting scholars, would have been too difficult for the Wideners to handle...
...advisers say he does not want the Californian on the ticket. He considers Reagan too far to the right to provide the proper ideological balance. But if Ford is nominated by only a skimpy margin, he faces two unappealing options: he can buck the Reagan delegates and dare to pick his own man, or he can throw open the second spot to the convention floor, which will surely regard Reagan favorably...
...could in Moliere's footsteps. He casts a pitiless light on the vices of a leisure class that is trapped too high on the social scale for aspiration. Following an endless round of pleasure, these people are self-indulgent, inconstant, frustrated and foiled. In their cynical worldliness they dare not believe in friendship or hope for love. They are as tarnished within as they are polished without. They talk as one might expect people to talk in heaven, but they live like people who have fashioned their own hell...
...exhibit does not dare enough: it remains bounded by the adjective "student". Inadequately budgeted, the show reflects the biases of academics in its display and content. Many of these pieces are too obviously exercises, too directed to be more than imperfect realizations of formulas. Traditional modes and media dominate; a painting section hangs in guady grandeur over half a wall, while one of the most outstanding pieces in the show, Sage Sohier's book of umbrella photographs, is locked all-but-invisible in a glass case...