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Yale was outplayed, and seemed to win the game by magic. The Crimson forwards swung away with the abandon of batting practice, and if you totalled the square feet of open cage Harvard shot at, you would have a very broad side of a barn...
...always, Updike's lean, acrobatic prose makes his performance look effortless: sunlight is "like raw ore still heaped on the upper half of the barn wall," birds on a wire "darkly punctuated an invisible sentence." One sweep of his pen can illuminate whole facets of life: after Joey's mother suffers a severe and terrifying attack of angina, 11-year-old Richard hurries to the homestead to see "a parade he was afraid of missing and afraid of catching...
Seven for Two. All of which says something for the process of natural selection-unless the sire happens to be Nantallah and the mare is Rough Shod II. Neither ever amounted to much on the track, but they are all business in the barn. The first product of their union was Ridan, a huge colt who won $635,074 before he was retired to stud in 1963. Next came Lt. Stevens, who is still racing as a four-year-old and has won $240,949. Then there is Moccasin. A strapping chestnut filly, Moccasin is two years...
...sometimes nightmarish forms. But just about anything could set off Artzy's imagination. A Nude with a Snood is his interpretation of an unfathomable phrase overheard at a cocktail party; a primitive piece of sculpture called Connecticut African came from bits of wood picked up in the barn of his Connecticut farm. Artzybasheff's deep hate of tyranny is exemplified in the show by the extraordinary swastika shapes into which he twisted his caricatures of the Nazis. Above all, his humor and joie de vivre are revealed in countless ways, including a large eye containing a tiny sparkle...
Young Charles will live in a rustic wooden dormitory, get up at 7 a.m., dress in jeans, an open shirt, sweater and desert boots. He will take his turn at serving a breakfast of cooked meal, tea, toast and milk from a nearby dairy barn, attend compulsory chapel, then turn to rigorous academic work until 3 p.m. After that come the chores, which range from polishing the chapel's huge picture window to varnishing floors, feeding the pigs, washing the dishes, cutting and carting a portion of the 500 tons of wood that the school consumes each year...