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...perhaps the best putter among all the great players in the game today. Though he likes to say that he attaches more importance to his driving, he will lecture for hours on the virtues of the "reverse overlap" putting grip, or the different consistencies of Bermuda and bent-grass greens. "If you don't putt well, it affects your whole game. It is the most delicate and precise thing you do," he says. "It takes more touch, more feel. You have to be mentally refreshed to do it well...
WEDNESDAY night's riot in the Square was no incidental marring of an afternoon of peaceful protest. Nor was it the handwork of an isolated clique of anarchists bent on wreaking havoc for reasons of sheer perversity. The number of people that became actively involved and the depth of the anger, fear, and doubt that it touched off in most of us demand that we find less simplistic explanations...
Outside, the sky was cloudy; and the naked trees bent in the wind. I almost tripped on the walk, and I remembered a quotation from Singer's story, "A Friend of Kafka": "Anyone who happens to come in contact with a great man marches with him into immortality-often in clumsy boots...
...enormously diverse. The black young, after all, number almost 11 million. There are Black Panthers, black nationalists and separatists, scions of the bourgeoisie, sharecroppers' sons throughout the rural South, ghetto hustlers in candy-blue trousers and lizard shoes ("fly vines"). There are students at white colleges who are bent less on integrating than on helping their own people, students at black colleges who differ radically with their parents' conceptions of blackness...
...music suddenly slashes at the eardrums. The musicians, dressed in dashikis or undershirts, are bent into their efforts, sweating, their faces expressionless. Their sounds are warm and swirling, then frenetic, the horns bleating, the drummer flailing, the pianist pouncing intently at the keyboard. The tune is unidentifiable, the melody shattered into ravaged fragments, the rhythms complex and seemingly .beyond grasp...