Word: al
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...last season and hit well down South. Morse, now captain, hit .333 on the trip and .306 last year. Drummey makes up in hustle what he lacks in finesse in the field, and hit .329 batting leadoff as a junior. Bartolet filled the gap left by the graduation of Al Martin and surprised everyone with a .333 spring trip average, highest on the club with Morse...
...done so with no real flair for acting, for it is truer of Tucker than of al most any other tenor that, in the Italian phrase, "the opera is in the throat." What emerges from Tucker's throat is a warm and sensuous voice, vibrant with emo tional fervor, capable of a lyrical legato or a ringing fortissimo. Tucker uses that voice with precise intelligence, lightening and darkening his tone to convey a whole range of feeling. Among the roles that he has not yet sung at the Met are two that contributed to Caruso's fame: Canio...
...Fools is a study in despair. The despair is not relieved by the usual dilu tions; it is not the giddy gloom of youth -"the world is bad (but I am young)," nor is it the envy of faltering age - "the world is good (but I am old)." And al though the novel is a bitter distillate of all the wonderful skill that made Kather ine Anne Porter's reputation in the '305, it avoids the smugness of the satisfied satirist - "the world is disgusting (but I am clever)." In fact there are no personal obtrusions, nothing...
...problem is at the mound, where Shepard faces the problem of replacing his number one and number two hurlers from last year. Dave Larking graduated, and Tom Boone, who is workbag on a thesis, hasn't come out for practice yet. The only serious loss in the infield was Al Martin, the club's leading batsman last year...
Philip (turning to the general at a social function): Have you been minister for a long time? Fraga (standing at attention): For al most one year...