Destruction & Revolt ...was Mo Mo Mo P Scholarship (this Dis is on Film)

[Michael Bailey]

Wasn't Updike's novel Memories of the Ford Administration set in Camden?
...anyway, in Tall Story, the campus is a locus amoenus, the professors are
brave enough to insist on academic standards for athletes - because they
have tenure!!! - and the Anthony Perkins character is able to take a dive
on his exam in order to avoid taking a dive in the game.
The fragility of their power notwithstanding, the rest of the community
doesn't quite for
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> But what of the Left? Is there a Left? A Left of the Left?
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> I blame Clinton and Obama too.  More Obama than Clinton....In
> Destruction and Revolt, we see the established Democrats who control
> all the funding that is sent to cities like Camdon NJ, monies that are
> wasted, spent on construction projects that line the pockets of
> corporates who fund Democratic candidates.
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> On 7/24/13, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > it's a vast right-wing conspiracy...
> >
> > there was a time (maybe) when the college professor was considered pretty
> > cool and students looked up to them, like in _Tall Story_  (1960) where
> the
> > college professors provided guidance against the attempted corruption of
> > the basketball player, played by Anthony Perkins.
> >
> > I blame Bush!  a-and Reagan...and Goldwater, of course (Nixon goes w/out
> > saying)
> >
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