Word: americans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Cooney Weiland had broken up last winter's spectacular sophomore line of All-American Joe Cavanagh. Steve Owen and Dan DeMichele early in preseason drills, and last weekend. each performer was skating with a different unit...
Then, almost as a tease of an answer from out of the infinite west, Richard Brautigan came a week ago and read spacey little one-liners that laughed in the now-vulnerable face of "serious" poetry everywhere. American literature at its most libertine spoke, ruthlessly mocking the discipline and care of poetry along with the paralyzing limitations that have admittedly been placed upon it. The line between space and sloppiness, like the one between innovativeness and perversity, grew tenuous. With Brautigan, things were looking grim for those of us who were counting on salvation in looseness and space...
Another outstanding Hartwick freshman-who has an excellent chance of becoming an All-American by the end of his sophomore year-is goalie Frank Van Der Sommen. Whereas Meyers, hampered by an injured knee. let the ball come to him many of the times, Van Der Sommen continually moved out of the crease to catch high kicks and passes, cutting off possible scoring threats. "It may be a sacrilegious thing to say, but I think Hartwicks' goalie outplayed Meyers." one Crimson fan said after the game...
...Mexico, where he made his landmark in the Cinema of Cruelty, Los Olvidados, a fierce, searing lament for the Mexican poor. The cinema, he claimed, was "most reminiscent of the work of the mind during sleep"-and he kept on dreaming onscreen. Soon foreign film makers-and avant-garde American ones-began to imitate his trancelike style...
...labyrinthine as the author's best-selling Kremlin Letter, it is set mostly in Central Europe late in World War II. The adversaries are a depraved lot of American military and a handful of German exiles-who all want to beat the Allies at setting up the postwar government in Germany-and an equally desiccated lot of Nazis whose aims seem less clear, but whose posturings and preoccupations are more exotic. There is, of course, a doomed agent who is the pawn of both groups. The days of John le Carré's simple, cigarette-smoking depressive...