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...could get to a line drive pretty darned fast and still make it look easy. He played a good rightfield, and at Yankee Stadium that isn't easy. He was a pretty good man in the clutch too. Many was the time he would literally bend over backward or fall into the seats in right to catch aspiring homers. It's a great pennant race this year. I'd like to wish Hank Bauer luck, but since I'm still a Yankee fan, I can't and won't. He never relied...
Back to Back. This time the networks cried foul. And the Republicans cried chicken. CBS Chief Frank Stanton called it a "disturbing step backward in the progressive effort toward a better-informed public." NBC's Robert Sarnoff invited Johnson and Goldwater to appear back to back, or even face to face, on Meet the Press, which is exempt from the equal-time provision since it is a regularly scheduled interview show. Goldwater accepted. At week's end Johnson had yet to reply...
...earth-and economic. Though forced to leave the area as a major power a decade ago, France still holds at least a $375 million investment in her former Indo-Chinese empire, more than any other nation. The total may not seem great in the industrialized West, but in a backward region it constitutes a substantial influence...
...Turner ("He moves me like music") and the Pre-Raphaelites, and at the same time admires Tarzan comic strips. His resulting meditations lead him to jot down thoughts in a notebook. Mostly they are rather enigmatic: "This dirty juice, this thing much sanctified: this wine. This coward, this backward-looking fugitive: this Hero." But sometimes his jottings illuminate his sculptures-his half-noble, half-ridiculous Goliath, his David triumphant but howling with grief. Writes Ipousteguy: "Disfigured-transfigured, disfiguration-transfiguration; this is the only thing to remember about this man-and others...
...language constantly points backward with malice to other poets' diction, to their barely credible recognition scenes based on flimsy evidence like scars, footprints and locks of hair, to their unquestioning awe of traditional elements of all kinds...