Word: control
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yale always comes at us strong," DeVries said. "We need to possess the ball. Our `D' has played great all year, but if we don't control faceoffs it's gonna be tough...
Despite their preparation and crowd control,Getman says his room has still endured a bit ofdamage...
...only story to take place outside of the Orthodox world, this tale serves as an interesting complement and contrast to The Twenty-seventh Man, the first in the collection. Both stories feature a young man trapped in a situation outside of his control; one survives and the other does not, but more important than the outcome of the plot are the ways in which these two characters cope with their circumstances. One, Pinchas, is trapped in Stalin's vengeful Russia, and the other, Natan, lives in a nation experiencing a different sort of convulsive conflict. One story is told...
...last decade of his life. In the picture, he sits over a table, writing: he leans towards his thick left arm and writes with the other. He is both solid and graceful, not an airy grace but the true grace of a man who seems in absolute control and comfort, his collar opened low on his famous chest. His head inclines towards the left and downward, the eyes lowered to the page and obscured to the viewer. The white, trimmed beard is dignified, the coming together of his lips stern--as if the writing itself deserved a scolding...
...poise and his life ran together--some would say to the extent that the discussion of one can not help but bleed into a discussion of the other. There was a sportsman's code to which he held himself and all others, a code of scrupulous honesty, precision, self-control, courage, skill and stoicism: and the code which governed his life also pervades his spare and detached writing, dictating not only the actions and responses of his heroes and heroines from Nick Adams through the protagonist known to the American high-schooler only as the Old Man, but also...