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When I was seven: My rocking horse died
Heroes: Martin Luther, Robert F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Alf Landon, MLK, Abraham Lincoln, Bruce Springsteen, William F. Buckley, Carry Nation, Larry Bird, Frank Sinatra, Daniel Webster, Kathryn Gaines, George Brett, Roy Orbison, Amelia Earhart, John Brown, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Louis Armstrong, James Naismith, William Allen White
Interests:
Philology, puritan and political rhetoric, Christianity, prosody, Lincoln, modern and historical English usage, Kansas history, homiletics, Fowler’s guide, thrift, pronunciation, political biographies, oratory, rural life, metrical lyricism, the equality of man, sports as metaphor, education reform, mid nineteenth century prose, alliterative and rhopalic sequences, agriculture, the Civil War, Kansas symbols, suffering, Greek tragedies, supralapsarian idealism, levelheaded women, the knuckleball, sirloin medium rare, good eggnog, military strategy
Aversions:
Hedonism, vanity, waste, exalted man, ease, vapid sermons, pictures, economic royalists, urban sprawl, modern political discourse, conspicuous consumption, teachers "unions", social promotion, liberal elitism, state-sponsored gambling, infralapsarian notions, girls who live next to major bodies of water, food I can't pronounce, enjambed prose, taxation as an instrument for social change, Missouri history
Favorite films:
Harvey, The Candidate, From Here to Eternity, The Wizard of Oz, Patton, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Rocky
Education:
Phillips Exeter Academy 1995