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With four seconds remaining in the game and Harvard holding on to a 3-2 lead. Crimson goalie John Devin made a miraculous save of a Bart Blaeaser shot in front of the net to seal the Crimson victory in front of 2534 spectators...
...know what got into me," said Giamatti's secretary, Kathleen O'Wiggins. "Bart--he lets us call him Bart--expects to have a fresh carnation for his lapel every day, bright and early, as soon as he gets here in the morning. You should see how his face lights up just after he pins it on. But I just forgot. I hope he doesn't spank me like the last time...
...Bart, as he also let his Yale minions call him, was of course a legendary Red Sox fan and is a rumored candidate to replace baseball impressario Peter V. Ueberroth should the commissioner, as expected, enter politics with a race for president of Austria. (Polls indicate a "Vote Ueberroth, He's an Uebbermensch" campaign is a surething.) But the legendary Red Sox fan has begun to drop subtle hints that his year at the helm of the Senior Circuit has tempered any hopes he may have harbored to be appointed philosopher-king of the national pastime...
...ones in my book) say that one should appreciate the game for good play and beauty in the abstract--and the rooting might even get in the way of a higher, detached understanding. Bullbleep. Ya gotta root. (I cannot, for example, believe that my erstwhile colleague, National League prexy Bart Giamatti late of Harvard's great rival to the South, doesn't still pull for his beloved Red Sox, even though his present post demands an appearance of august impartiality within his new Leaue, and crusading zeal against his old favorites...
...judicial scenes benefit greatly from Higgins' experience as a lawyer and former U.S. Attorney. He avoids the cliches of courtroom drama to focus on the presiding judge and, through him, the vitality of the legal system. Judge Howard ("Black") Bart is no abstract idealist; with blunt example and sarcasm he repeatedly makes the point that separating the form from the substance of the law is dangerous to the health of the Republic...