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...stack of index slips that ran to 30 feet. Nobody can argue with his facts. What does seem regrettable is that he sometimes slights American achievements. Consider "Sport" in 1938: "Len Hutton scores 364 runs against Australia at the Oval Test Match (Aug.)." It would have only been cricket to add a separate-but-equal note reading: "Gabby Hartnett hits home run in the last of the ninth to give Chicago Cubs chance to win National League pennant (Sept...
...Henry, who was so much his inferior." Still more cryptic is what Blake called in his sketchbook a "Spiritual Communication." Possibly Blake intended it to be a recording of a conversation he had with the ghost of a flea (he sketched several of these: they look rather like Jiminy Cricket). The "communication" reads: "Can you think I can endure to be considered as a vapour arising from your food? I will leave you if you doubt I am of no greater importance than a butterfly...
...best shows on BBC television is a situation comedy called Till Death Do Us Part. Its protagonist is a sort of Everyslob, an odiously vulgar xenophobe named Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell). Every Monday night at 7:30, old Alf gets on and starts sputtering away. West Indian cricket players? "It's amazing how them sambos have picked this game up." The Labor government? "Right load of pansies, they are." Prince Philip? "Well, he's a different sort of Greek; he isn't one of your restaurant Greeks...
Reality, bears only traces of it. To be sure, on Spring Weekend, Finley's boys play at cricket and bowls in the courtyard, and the excellent House Chamber Music Society performs woodwind and trumpet concerti on the lawn. Apart from Finley, however, the House seems tame and ordinary. There is no literary magazine, drama review, seminar program, serious artistic production--not even a psychedelic light show-dance happening. Instead, the House Committee sponsors a movie series which includes such favorites as Bad Day at Black Rock and The Americanization of Emily. Even the number of preppies has been vastly exaggerated...
Nathaniel A. Parker, Director of Physical Training, already allows PT credit for such "carry-over" sports as pistol and rifle, cricket and karate, and, upon application, for such other esoteric activities as Radcliffe volleyball and dancing classes, Loeb Theatre musical productions and donations to the PBH blood drive. Two freshmen received credit for SCUBA diving in the IAB pool last year, a third for his riding lessons at Beverley...