09-10-2014, 11:52 AM
I think Publius is referring to this line: " Childress recalls how his older brother motivated him to get good grades by dangling sneakers as the prize."
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)