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...Bernie) Bierman, 82, University of Minnesota football coach from 1932 to '50, who led the school to three Associated Press national championships and five undisputed Big Ten titles; of a heart attack; in Laguna Beach, Calif. The "Silver Fox" of football, shy, soft-spoken Bierman preferred reading notes aloud to his players rather than giving them pep talks, and emphasized blocking and tackling rather than passing. His advice to his teams: "Base your plays on standards most likely to defeat the champions," instead of their actual opponents...
...students originally protested the reading aloud in class of a story using the world "nigger" to describe a maid...
Finley said he had once thought he was writing for some higher goal, but wondered aloud whether he had been "writing all these years just to be speaking in Harvard Hall today...
Massive Betrayals. All this allusiveness nearly swamps Rosales' story. Moreover, Day often falls into a "Hey, meester" rendering of how Spanish might be written if it were English; the result sounds like Ricardo Montalban reading aloud from the works of Ernest Hemingway. By inserting (for flavor) so many Spanish words and (for sense) their English translations, Day sets up a rhythm with all the verve of a language primer. Characters talk as if they were constantly flipping back to the glossary to check their meanings...
...understandable enough. Said he: "Viet Nam has been the dominant factor of American life for the past 15 years. It would be a strange class that wouldn't bring up the subject." The students applauded when McGovern hailed President Carter's pardon of draft evaders, then wondered aloud whether "the men who conducted the war in Viet Nam may be the ones in need of a pardon...