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...through 6 opponents to the title, Hoad at first performed more like a talented but moody schoolboy than the defending champion. In early matches, played on the far reaches of Wimbledon before standing galleries of only a few hundred, he snarled at himself when a shot went astray, grimaced when his booming serve missed by millimeters. Asked one newspaper: "Can Hoad beat the sulks?" Against Sweden's Sven Davidson in the semifinals, Hoad fretted some, but still won in a breeze...
...reviews and articles. Guy Davenport in "The Nymph in the Spark Plug" is concerned not merely with the "literary standards" of a literary mode but with its movement in intellectual history. The interest is in observation rather than in literary pomp. Audience's casual observations, however, can carry it astray. Donald Van Eman sets up a paradigm only so as to have an excuse for commenting on several Westerns; he wanders all over the lot and then attempts to pull a point...
...more awry than a certain sprawl and shifting of tone. There is a real lack of causation and of vital connection; the destructive social forces never bear down honestly or even credibly on the personal tale. But here it is the social critic who helps lead the craftsman astray-the Williams who is obsessed with violence, corruption and sex, who sees life through a cracked glass darkly, and who at the end-exactly as the cavalry were once summoned to the rescue -brings on hoodlums for the kill...
What galled pressmen most, beyond their inability to go after the news in a vital part of the world, was the inference, however unintentional, to be drawn from Dulles' ban: a seeming fear that American reporters who went to China could be led astray. The New York Times, four of whose staffers were among the 18 U.S. newsmen invited by the Chinese last August, complained that the Government appeared to believe that the correspondents "would write what the Chinese Reds wanted, and would help the Communists...
Since the beacon on the Empire State was extinguished, says the Audubon Society, no birds have crashed. The revolving lights that march around the building's top seem to be no menace to the birds. The light does not touch them long enough to lead them astray...