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...other California sport on campus, water polo, enjoyed new coaches. The men's team found itself in the hands of longtime swim coach Bernal and the women, in their second year of varsity play, were steered by Costin...
...novel ring true. The one problem here is that the period 1954-58 was not, to put it mildly, a time of campus unrest or even great social shakeups. Segal makes up for this with painstaking accounts of such bygone rigors as the Step Test and the Swim Test, while ignoring real campus news like the hockey heyday of Bob (really '58) and Bill ('56) Cleary (who did make it into Love Story...
...memorable phrase, "a mirror walking along a main road." McCarthy's reflections begin with a recollection of her colleague Philip Rahv, longtime editor of Partisan Review. Thousands of words have been spent discussing the unrepentant old radical; this obituary captures him in three sentences: "He never learned to swim . . . He would immerse his body in the alien element but declined or perhaps feared to move with it. His resistance to swimming with the tide, his mistrust of currents, were his strength...
...were beaten badly," he says. And, since then, the complete three-piece suit on the swim deck has been his trademark...
Women's varsity swimmer and backstroke specialist Elaine Sang '87 sits behind the starting blocks ten minutes before she is scheduled to swim. "If I do poorly, I don't think it's because I was there really early. But if I don't get behind the blocks early, I can then blame my performance...