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...forget about Boston College, MIT, Tufts and Brandeis. The Greater Boston League (GBL) can be viewed this afternoon at 3 on the diamond of Soldiers Field. That's when Harvard and Northeastern go at it in a contest that should determine the winner of the mythical trophy honoring college baseball excellence in Beantown...
...Springsteen's fresco of muscle and dope is not the revelling in machismo that it might be (i.e. J. Geils), although clearly anybody who has proclaimed in song that "I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra" is to be watched closely. But even when a chorus of women sing "Those romantic young boys, all they ever want to do is fight," it conveys a soft ironic criticism which runs through the whole album, up to the point where Springsteen tells a girl friend "you oughtta quit this scene...
With some tawdry bunting plastered on the mezzanine but only one successful bunt laid down in the diamond, the Boston Red Sox inaugurated their home campaign Thursday with an exciting, 7-6, loss to their top rival in the American League East, the Baltimore Orioles...
Ringing Rhetoric. In diamond-and oil-rich Angola, white settlers are restive under Portuguese rule, and have considered breaking away as Rhodesia did from Britain in 1965; they too like Spinola because he advocates greater autonomy for the provinces. Moreover, Spinola cannot be dismissed as just another left-wing critic. During the Spanish civil war he fought as a volunteer for Franco, and then went to Hitler's Third Reich for military training...
...become what he observes-objects made of stone, iron, wood, glass. "The god he wanted to reach wasn't interested in words. Only in achieved states. Palpable transformations. He would be known only by those who had gone through them." Fogel's crowning obsession is the diamond. Acquiring some through a friendly burglar, he becomes a fanatical student of facets and crystallography, of refraction angles and cleavage planes. He is possessed by the belief that diamonds are an incarnation of God's cold, durable and eternal being. What Fogel cannot possess is Laurence's sister Susie...