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...coached Joe Pa, if only in the area of sideline composure, Oklahoma's good-times coach was as graceful and considerate later as Shaffer. "In the '50s, coaches may have made the difference," he said, "but you don't outcoach anymore. Players win now." With a sigh not a bellow, Switzer proclaimed, "We survived Bowl Day. That gives us the national championship." As for next year, he advised pretenders, "You've got to be good, got to be lucky and got to have other people help you." Oklahoma's aid came from New Orleans, where Miami had the good taste...
...While in the parlors of indignation," Saul Bellow wrote, "the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil." Bellow's character Moses Herzog did that. Herzog wrote crank letters to ex-wives, to Dwight Eisenhower, to Adlai Stevenson, to Spinoza. "There is someone inside me. I am in his grip," Herzog confessed. It was as if his mind had been hijacked...
...DIED. SAUL BELLOW, 89, Nobel Prize-winning novelist; in Brookline, Mass. (See Appreciation...
...memoir of growing up in Chicago, Bellow described listening to one of Roosevelt's fireside chats on a summer evening at the height of the Depression: "Just as memorable to me," he wrote, "was to learn how long clover flowers could hold their color in the dusk." Politics was for politicians. Bellow's job was to observe the world around him and make us see its beauty...
James Atlas is the author of Bellow: A Biography and, most recently, of My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor's Tale