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...Feuerstein 8 167 20.9 1 48 Carter Hunt 8 85 10.6 1 12 Ed Kmak 7 152 21.7 1 61 Dave Kelley 7 115 16.4 1 42 Jim Langford 3 58 19.3 0 33 David Dixon 2 9 4.5 0 9 Seth Prostic 1 28 28.0 0 28 Eli Cooper 1 12 12.0 0 12 Spencer Haimes 1 10 10.0 0 10 Dave Sheronas 1 9 9.0 0 9 Steve Nalepa 1 4 4.0 0 4 DEFENSIVE STATISTICS...
Villa, who uses a specially construted web glove from Cooper, still said he will have to be on his best behavior tomorrow night. "[The other goalie] is very competitive. He's still got some tricks up his sleeve," Villa said...
...walks, Natty encounters two cultures, white and red. Modern multiculturalists might profit by pondering the combination of tolerance and sternness with which he views them. Cooper does not demonize Indians; when whole tribes are presented as villainous, this is a plot device, not a racial judgment (the French get the same treatment). Nor does Cooper worship Indians, in the manner of Dances with Wolves. Up to a point, he is a relativist. Good white men go to heaven when they die, while good Indians head for the happy hunting ground. Natty refuses to send either on their way minus scalps...
There is also human nature, which, as Cooper's tales present it, is a sorry thing. Sophistication doesn't improve it: the bloodiest deed in the Leatherstocking tales, a frontier My Lai, is the responsibility of a French aristocrat. Nor does the simple life guarantee innocence. Cooper's blackest villain is an Indian, his second blackest a hermit trapper who hunts scalps for bounty. The scene in which the trapper, scalped himself and dying, fears he may go to hell, is one of the most powerful Cooper ever wrote, and it owes its power to ethical earnestness as much...
After an initial taste of bestsellerdom, Cooper's career wore itself out in feuds and lawsuits. But his vision, so bright in its highlights, so somber in its shadows, is not the product of mid-life crises. He had it all along...