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Dunster House, which finished bow-to-bow with Kirkland in the preliminary beats last week, was unable to narrow Kirkland's margin of victory as the wind died for the last quarter mile...
Designed by Olin Stephens, the man responsible for three of the last four cup winners,* Intrepid is not a particularly graceful-looking boat. With a bobbed bow and a truncated stern, she is only 64 ft. long overall, 45 ft. at the waterline, compared with 68 ft. and 46 ft. for Columbia and Constellation. An obvious advantage is weight; Stephens figures that he saved more than 60 Ibs. on the shorter bow alone. What's more, says Stephens, without the usual heavy fore and aft overhang, the short-ended Intrepid will be less prone to lose speed by hobbyhorsing...
...nineteenth-century musical sentimentality. Of the four, the "Thoreau" movement is the kindest to its namesake. Its big surprise is the sudden addition of a lyrical, low-register, and entirely unseen flute. Monday night the flutist was nowhere on the program and even refused to come out for a bow...
...last is one of the new businessmen, a greased, grotesque man of the sort who scorns religion by spitting in the holy water. The action is ineluctable, the outcome foregone and well-augured. The end is a wild, terrible gallop. The old horse rears to avoid running onto the bow of an abandoned boat and the Zamindar falls, his prized blood dampening the sand...
...qualifications and more: astonishing erudition, an edgy style, the wound of Jewishness and a bow of courage. He speaks four languages. He began publishing with two commanding achievements: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky (1959) and The Death of Tragedy (1961). Now he has found the absolute essential for a critic: a commanding idea. That idea is the breakdown of language. As he puts it, the "syntheses of understanding which made common speech possible no longer work." Today, Steiner notes, vast domains of meaning are ruled by nonverbal languages such as mathematics or symbolic logic; those who live beyond the veil of science...