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...question mark concerning Hatcher, however, is his shoulder. He sat out half a dozen games in Albuquerque because of an ailment variously diagnosed as a pulled muscle, torn ligaments and that most dreaded of all ballplayer ailments, a torn rotator cuff. The results of a midsummer examination by the Dodger team physician have not been publicized, but Hatcher did play 40 games in L.A. after his promotion, which may indicate it has healed...
Carl Sagan, says one of his colleagues at Cornell, "is very often right and always interesting. That is in contrast to most academics, who are always right and not very interesting. " In his books or off the cuff, on the lecture platform or sitting across from Johnny Carson, Sagan has a distinctive gift for expressing scientific notions vividly and with infectious enthusiasm. A sampler of the sayings of Sagan...
...uproariously funny when he wants to be. It's almost as though he can turn his comic talents on and off the way he does his omnipresent tape recorder--which he uses to capture everything he says so that later he can incorporate a humorous off-the-cuff remark into a future column...
...terms, Dispatches might best be regarded as a huge and motley totesack -- a literary receptacle for sensation and memory, hard facts now and then shifting the balance to visceral impressions and off-the-cuff (oftentimes, off-the-wall) philosophy. To call upon Dr. Johnson's phrase, Dispatches was "an irregular, undigested piece." Or to borrow a word from the French in referring to the form later perfected by the English, Herr's book was, quite frankly, an essay...
Early yesterday morning, at about 4 a.m., a little group of Harvard undergraduates who would doubtless consider themselves "politically concerned" sought amusement in the Yard. They turned around a few of the chairs set up for Commencement and delivered a few off-the-cuff speeches from the stage set up outside Mem Church. This proved satisfactory...