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...Army was equally impressive in its first try, however. The cadets won a triple meet over Colgate and Lafayette, 81-40-16. Kevin James of Army set a new meet record in the pole vault with a 15-foot leap...
...fantasy, play, memory and spectacle is just as real as the need for efficiency. Most of all, in Johnson's view, people need a sense of history. Architecture cannot give it to them by making ebullient panty raids on the sleeping past, grabbing a cornice here, a vault or pilaster there. It is a matter of integration. Not many architects now living have Johnson's integrative powers. He is a highly educated architect, able to slip like a dolphin through the currents of style: history is his natural element, and from the last 20 years of Johnson...
...impossible for a man to enter a TV-dominated race for major office without money; he must earn it, inherit it, or acquire it through the donations of special interests. Without it, the door to the television studio closes in his face with the finality of a bank vault...
There was little question as to the outcome of the meet after Harvard swept the long jump, triple jump, pole vault, and javelin and took the first two places in the high jump. By shutting the Indians out, the Crimson more than offset Dartmouth's expected domination of the throwing events...
...seek tragedy, but it lies in wait for them when they least expect it. They pursue fame, fortune and glory. They strive to found dynasties, subdue the earth, fathom the depths of the sea and the limits of space. In an instant of high-arching pride as men vault to these ambitious goals, fate fells them, and they return to the dust from which they came. The ancient Greek tragedies are cautionary tales of how men incur the wrath of the gods by trying to be gods...