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Jul/Aug 2013

The original celebrity trainer

In March 1932, Izzy Winters, previously a celebrated wrestling coach at Yale, was featured in the New Yorker in a long article titled simply...

Jul/Aug 2013

Object Lesson: Descendants of the Aztecs

In 1974, William Reese ’77, an enterprising Yale sophomore, spotted a rare map in a furniture sale and placed a bid. It was not Reese’s...

Jul/Aug 2013

Why “bad” English isn’t

In much of the midwest, “anymore” can mean “these days”—in an affirmative sentence, as in “Those are worthless...

Jul/Aug 2013

Quoted

“The greatest shortcoming of most attempts at liberal education today—with their individualism or individualized, unfocused, and...

Jul/Aug 2013

May the Force be with thee

It is a period of civil war. The spaceships of the rebels, striking swift From base unseen, have gain’d a vict’ry o’er The cruel...

Jul/Aug 2013

Works received

Floyd Abrams ’59LLB Friend of The Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment Yale University Press, $32.50 R. Howard Bloch, Sterling...

Sep/Oct 2013

A life in history

Edmund S. Morgan and his wife, Marie, had season tickets to the Yale men’s varsity hockey games for a quarter of a century. This year...

Sep/Oct 2013

The English language in peril?

Now I’ve heard enough to completely disregard solicitations from our class fund-raising solicitors. I have heard repeated comments that the...

Sep/Oct 2013

Legal history trove comes to Yale

Two hundred volumes take up surprisingly little space in the Law School’s rare book section. But they help tell the big story of “our...

Sep/Oct 2013

Works received

Charles K. Armstrong ’84 Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992 Cornell University Press, $35 Warner M. Bailey...

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