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...looks like the champ's champ. At 6 ft. and 200 lbs., he is built like a bull, with musculature that would make Atlas envious. He puts his 17-in. biceps. 27-in. thighs and 36-oz. bat to good use. When Ted Williams first watched Jackson swing, he said, "He's the most natural hitter I've ever seen." Williams, the hitter's hitter, has not been proved wrong...
...includes himself in the epitaph. Heilbroner fits his own description of Promethean man, full of "driving energy," "nervous will": a problem solver. Now, he grimly concludes, that gift of fire may burn up the world. For the sake of the race Prometheus must go. To be replaced by whom? Atlas, Heilbroner proposes, the burden bearer rather than the problem solver: the man who plays life not to win but to survive. Before a reader is carried away by this bleak neomythology, he should ask: Just what are Heilbroner's deep apprehensions based upon? A few data (mostly projected...
...brother-in-law behind the counter and asks him something in Greek. The brother-in-law shrugs his shoulders in response. Frank turns back and asks, "What is it when many books in one place?...Yes, a library. One day I was in air force library. I take an atlas to see where I want go. I look at Sweden, Europe, United States, South America...
Heilbroner, who is the author of seven books, among them "The Worldly Philosophers," said, "The underlying spirit that has moved Western man to his successes is Promethean. The Promethean model has served its day and purpose. A new mood will have to take its place, one of Atlas, whose characteristic will be perseverance...
...turtles, who actually come from the dry foothills of the Atlas Mountains, found the lettuce strange and exotic to their taste. A number of them became sick from overeating. Some of the healthier turtles managed to escape out into the streets of Dunkirk. Special barriers had to be built. Debruyne, meanwhile, received the bills for the regular care and feeding of the turtles-all 25,000 of them. He also had to pay for the veterinarian. "What a silly idea, taking the turtles out of their baskets and stuffing them with lettuce," he fumed. "They could have easily fasted...