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...four of the extraordinary baseball teams braced to play off this week qualify as flabbergasting. But while the Tigers and Royals have sampled defeat, and the Padres have done more than that, only the Cubs have stood for disillusionment, and their first success in 39 years has wrought a national catharsis. For Cub fans actually from Chicago, where this way of strife is passed down like a pickax from father to son, it must be gently annoying to find so many noble sufferers going public, besides George Will and the other political columnists breaking out in their regular rash...
...their lawns and carted their kids to Cub Scout meetings. Bill tinkered around the house, and pieced out his teacher's salary by painting houses and working at the post office on school vacations. Erma, he says, was always repainting or redecorating, moving the furniture around. There was, of course, a septic tank, and in the summer, says Erma, "you could see that little sucker sink into the ground and you'd think, 'There goes another $400.' " But there weren't many one-liners: "Who was there to listen...
...fables that the young au thor's gifts are best displayed, as if confinement had forced her to think in brief, ironic parables. In Blurry, the Explorer, a bear cub ventures into a human city and becomes the intimate - and the quarry -of dogs, cars and people. At last he re turns to his mother. "I wanted to discover the world," he explains. "And did you discover it?" "No, no ... not really; you see, I couldn't find it!" In Eve's Dream, plants display a variety of personalities, as they do in the tales of Andersen...
...Nebraska football team strains its sinew in a weight room that Cub Scouts tour. In the foyer of this unbelievable expanse of sweat, set off by red velvet ropes and little curators' plaques, is a museum of the original Cornhusker barbells and exercise bike. One has to grin. Associate Professor Susan Rosowski of the English department agrees that a sense of humor is helpful. "There's a strange duality," she says. "On the one hand, we're terribly proud of our Big Red, but we're also a little defensive about how big it is here...
...guidelines represent recognition of the weaknesses in Harvard's undergraduate program and call for more stringent selection and evaluation of teaching follows and teaching assistants, Sidney Verba '53, CUB chairman and associate dean of the Faculty for Undergraduate Education said yesterday...