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...Brooklyn College, Alfred met James Meagher, a poet who was a great inspiration to his writing. "In 1941, he sold a piano and started a magazine, The American Poet--with the grandiose idea that he could take any mass of writers and get one good poem, from children' jumping-rope rhymes to cerebral stuff. We got five hundred a week and only three of us to edit them . . . We had a sense that something great was going to happen, week after week, expecting a volley of applause . . . nothing would happen...
...mighty protector of Christianity has arisen. King David of India. . . has taken the field against the unbelievers." But the Vatican's information proved faulty; "King David" turned out to be Genghis Khan, and his Mongol empire was to spread terror on the flank of Eu rope for the next two centuries...
...with the realization that everything in the world was thick. My fingers were sausages. My tongue was a tennis ball. My lips swelled grotesquely on the mouth grip. The air was syrup. The water jelled around me as though I were smothered in aspic. I hung witless on the rope. Standing aside was a smiling, jaunty man, my second self, perfectly self-contained, grinning sardonically at the wretched diver. [He] ordered that I unloose the rope and go on down...
Although playing at sports is far more valuable to an education than watching them, College physical requirements stop after a year of physical training, the ability to swim, and the knack of sliding down a rope. But even if athletic participation is essential to education, when inflation forces a choice between it and a greater tuition rise, athletics should take a back seat for the duration. A top notch sports plan means little to the student who must work longer hours to make up for his increased tuition package. It means even less when he knows part of the money...
...That is the wonder of the modern-day fairy-land that is a New Hampshire or Vermont ski resort. Whether it's a chair lift, a rope tow, or a T-bar, there they all are. All types ride the tow. And here is where the basic purpose of the skier comes to the surface...