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...offense was on the sidelines muttering about the frustrating events of the day, the Big Green defense was busy keeping the ship afloat, hoping for some sparks of life. Those sparks were slow to come, though kicking specialist Nick Lowery did provide the Hanover crowd with something to cheer about as the second quarter drew to a close...
...Yorker Journalist Renata Adler's special purview has often been the odd schizophrenia induced in those Americans who came of age (as she did) in the 1950s-a generation that was too young to cheer the System and too old to blow it up. The seven stories in Speedboat, though cast as fiction, really form an extended reporter's notebook on the same story: the many ways that agreeable, hypereducated people find to go slowly bonkers...
...Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche duBois fishes around for some bourbon to kill her jitters and pulls up with a bottle labeled "Southern Cheer." "How can that be?" she quips under her breath. You said it, Blanche--Southern gloom is the Williams world view, and you can fill yourself with three hours of it now at the Orson Welles...
...Jane Conventioneer may not understand life in New York, but I hope that each of them had a taste of the magic that comes from "the Big Apple." One can see the change, charm, cheer and challenge of the city on the faces of the millions who move through New York. After all, it is the greatest city in the world...
...with the American athletes. I was familiar with Dave Roberts's rivalry with teammate Earl Bell, who traded the world record from week to week during the spring. When all else failed, one could always find an American runner to urge on, for the sake of having someone to cheer...