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...Cradle of Liberty ("Whose hand will cradle a rock," Abbie used to say, like those kids at Opening Day, the tough kids still come out for baseball--the last liberal game, each person making his unique, separate contribution to the whole, no time limits, just the open spaces, no brute strength or monstrous size, just skill and smartness and talent. The analysis breaks down some when you start breaking down the crowds. These kids are Democrats by birth, all right, but they're not exactly the folks who manned McGovern buses or turn out for liberal caucuses in the suburbs...
...Shero system requires more than brute force. The Flyers' mentor has visited the Soviet Union to study Russian hockey techniques and has read Road to Olympus (the bible of Russian hockey) at least 50 times. Following the Russians, Shero became an ardent believer in conditioning and discipline. As a result, he sends his team onto the ice with a precise plan of attack and defense, plus some rigid rules about avoiding mistakes. He insists, for example, that his team, if leading by one goal, never take long shots at the open net in the final seconds of a game...
...Mice and Men. The pleader is Lennie, a ruined hulk who grasps ideas with his hands instead of his brain. Looming about the California farm land, Lennie is barely held in tow by his keeper George. Together, the two migratory workers enjoy a classic symbiosis, the blending of brute strength and animal cunning...
...Brute Force. In public, American officials had nothing but praise for these Russian efforts. Their private comments, however, still reflected their concern about the relatively primitive Soviet hardware, the lack of quality controls and the Russian penchant for testing in flight rather than on the ground. "Plain, goddamned brute-force engineering," said one U.S. official...
Beetle-Browed Brute. Johanson's conclusion is bound to cause controversy in the scientific community. Most anthropologists have been convinced that the first member of the genus Homo, or true man (as opposed to the hominids, or man-apes), was a beetle-browed, stoop-shouldered brute called Homo erectus, who appeared in Africa about a million or so years ago. But two years ago, Richard Leakey, following in the footsteps of his famed anthropologist father, the late Louis B. Leakey, undermined that theory. Digging near Kenya's Lake Rudolf, he uncovered fragments that were assembled into a nearly...