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galen  ·  3538 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Eisenhower briefly played professional baseball under an assumed name

    Seemingly unaware that some people might view such legerdemain as a lapse in his world-renowned personal character, Eisenhower later reminisced about the episode as if it were a youthful picaresque caprice.

I can't decide whether this sentence is really beautiful or unbearably pretentious.