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...talking about people who can chop wood like Carlton Fisk, the kind who've been mercilessly overrunning the streets, trampling the poor wasted troopers on their way to Harvard Pizza with their cross-country skis. I'm talking about the guys whose last game of anything was an emotional outburst of drunken nerf football between halves of the Super Bowl; whose last emergency was having to miss their scheduled beer runs during the second and third periods of Monday's Beanpot opener in order to watch John Hynes do his sprawling, miraculous Eddie Giacomin saves in the face of repeated...
...infantry officer in World War I. He covered the Spanish Civil War, and during World War II, he became the chief combat historian in the Central Pacific and Europe. Out of his experiences in the Korean War came his most esteemed books, The River and the Gauntlet and Pork Chop Hill. His writing was distinguished by narrative drive, a gritty attention to the details of combat and a plain-spoken sympathy for the men who suffered and triumphed on the front lines. He could not agree with people, he said, who thought that "war is a game in which...
Should the verb be "to plimp"? The participatory journalism of such books as Out of My League and Paper Lion, in which the amateur ventures lamblike among the wolves of professional sport-and then writes about how it feels to be a lamb chop-is unique to George Plimpton. Others have sedulously aped his ideas and style, but the author remains an original: a leaning tower of self-respect, plimping all the way to the showers...
...natural gas and electricity bills savage their budgets, Americans in great numbers are discovering that there's no fuel like an old fuel. Specifically, wood. Not only is it in plentiful supply and an infinitely renewable resource;* it is relatively cheap-or, for those who are willing to chop their own, even free...
Children are separated into communal work camps at the age of twelve and strictly segregated by sex. Single youths are required to chop trees, dig irrigation ditches and clear stumps. Since they work harder than others in a cooperative, they receive more food. But even they do not always get enough. At Pronet Phrac, a work camp west of Battambang, only ten youths are assigned to catch fish for 8,000 residents. Result: four or five people die of exhaustion every...