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...constant expression that can get on an opponent's nerves, especially if it is backed up by consistently strong strokes. For much of Lutz's adult playing career, the smile has lacked that kind of support. But not in the pro title matches at the Longwood Cricket Club near Boston...
Best of all, Hone provides a portrait of Nasser's Cairo that occasionally reads like updated Lawrence Durrell -a city of dusty cricket fields and sweet coffee and the khamsin rustling the jacaranda trees, a city in which the revolutionary press censor plays badminton on the roof of his apartment house and keeps a suffragi downstairs to retrieve the stray shuttlecocks from the streets below.-Otto Friedrich
...addition to his major problems with India, Pakistan's President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto last week also faced a challenge of sorts from Bombay's Cricket Club of India. The Indian members of the exclusive club were clean bowled recently to discover that Bhutto, who grew up in Bombay, still holds a life membership in the C.C.I. The club has scheduled a special meeting to resolve the situation. One faction wants to expel him: Bhutto in his prime may have been a rather good opening bat, but, dash it, did he not let the side down by declaring...
...reading Orwell we can learn invaluable lessons about how to approach the world of politics and our role in it, how to gauge our struggle and the ends to which it is directed. His is not the impervious goodness of Batman or the flawless wisdom of Jiminy Cricket; his virtue is more human and more useful...
...year or so later I was ready to go to college. A serious academically inclined young lady? How super to read at Oxford or Cambridge; such a stimulating intellectual atmosphere? Looking back, I am rather dubious about such reasoning. I'm afraid my imagination was busy populating the cricket-fields of those institutions of learning with the ubiquitous presence of countless Michael Yorks: tan and rugged, batter's arm swinging purposefully across the screen of Joseph Losey's "Accident," cricket whites emanating some holy light...