"The elite schools, predicated on molding students into mirror images of their professors, seem divorced from any rational consideration of human happiness."

— Camille Paglia in yesterday's Chronicle of Higher Education

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Wedding of Eleanor Powell
and Glenn Ford, 1943

Ford died on this date four years ago.

“I seemed to be standing in a bus queue by the side of a long, mean street.”

— C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, opening sentence

"We are not saints." — Bill Wilson

Eleanor Powell, on the other hand….