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...root what the Crimson had yesterday was a solid 8-1 win that raised the team's record to 3-0, not to mention a pretty good lead in to Princeton. John Dinneen, Tal Johnson, and Dinneen's younger sibling Peter all matched Lemmon's 3-0 example. Mitch Reese, Charlie Duffy, and Jim Lubowitz won in four games while Spencer Brog put on the most courageous show of the day at number five, recovering to win his match in the fifth game after squandering a big lead in the fourth...
INTERPRETATIONS COME quickly and thickly in the wake of Ronald Reagan's State of the Union message. Together, we can embark on a new beginning. The Union must stop growing, lest it begin to rot. Return responsibility to the grass roots and in the process root out the weeds. Invoking leaders as varied as Churchill, Lincoln, FDR and JFK, the president struck many poses. Four spring immediately to mind...
...should take such an uncharitable view of their own ordeal. Actually, they have merely carried into joblessness, and applied to themselves, the attitudes inculcated in them by workaday society. The American view of joblessness has never been overly sympathetic. Pioneer America flaunted its punitive sentiment in a vulgar aphorism: "Root, hog, or die!" While that position has been softened a bit (witness unemployment benefits that have ranged from $9 billion the $19 billion annually in the past few years) in the face of the fact that most of today's idleness is involuntary, the nation has not relinquished...
THIS RESPECT for history is perhaps at the root of her highly celebrated feud with Lillian Hellman, the playwright and author. "The fact is that I think people have become increasingly concerned with the factual basis of Miss Hellman's recreation of history," she says. The dispute is a long-standing one, dating back to the publication of Miss Hellman's Scoundrel Time, which singles out Lionel and Diana Trilling as too sympathetic with the "scoundrels" of the McCarthy era. The Trillings, however, maintained that it was possible to oppose the red baiting tactics of the '50s without explicitly endorsing...
...Bostonians have lots to root for. Most importantly, when you root, the results are usually pretty good. The Celtics--guided by the play of the Bird--won their 14th World Championship banner last season. This year, there very well could be a 15th...