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Somehow, Ivy League players never rate very well when the Upper Eschelon of American football gathers in New York to compare computer outputs and flowery scouting reports that inevitably rate respective number one choices as "loaded with potential," or as having "great size," "fantastic speed," and "adept moves." Always, the...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: The Rest Are Rained Out | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

IF YOU compare the first two issues of Radical Software with the January 6 issue of Variety, you will get two very different views of the same phenomenon. Radical Software calls it the alternate television movement and Variety calls it the cassette revolution. The names the magazines use and the...

Author: By R. CRAIG Unger, | Title: Cables and Cassettes-The Television Revolution | 1/29/1971 | See Source »

With her farm wife's ingenuity-obviously she had learned more than English from reading Robinson Crusoe as a girl-Madame de La Tour du Pin had the star-survivor qualities of a first-generation American. She found nothing to compare with the beauty of the Hudson River at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Lady | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

EVALUATING poetry is a thankless task. There are no absolute standards of judgment, only wavering ones which depend on the fluctuation of taste and times. Perhaps the easiest way to criticize new poetry is to compare it to old poetry in an attempt to gain some perspective on its merit...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Poetry Berryman | 1/7/1971 | See Source »

THE BERRYMAN of the middle period is the most appealing, perhaps because he is the most human. The third period is more introspective, almost Gothic. Leaving Cambridge, and growing older, he confronts his asylum days in "The Hell Poem." The immediate temptation is to compare this to Lowell's "Waking...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Poetry Berryman | 1/7/1971 | See Source »

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