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...lofted it over the leftfield roof for a homer. His batting average started to climb. In the field he could do no wrong, did much that was phenomenal. He had an unconscious knack for doing the spectacular, an uncanny instinct for anticipating batters and baserunners. Once, when he dove out from under his cap (Mays frequently loses his cap) to catch a sinking line drive, he reached back, caught his cap in one hand and the ball in the other. Against the Dodgers one day, he raced into right center after a long fly, snagged it with a prodigious stretch...
...very beginning that Waldo is going to be caught by Hero Bart Hardin, editor of the Broadway Times, a journal devoted to horses and hoofers. On page eleven it is disclosed that Hardin's Broadway trademark is his collection of eleven gaudy vests, the latest being "a dove gray number with yellow tulips." Obviously, Waldo doesn't have a chance...
...second half of the opera, the symbolism gets thicker: Columbus' shadow and conscience appear. At one point, Columbus I and II (a baritone and a basso, respectively) clasp each other and vow to be together in death, and the finale finds a general movement towards paradise as the dove appears in radiant glory while angels (and everybody else) sing a deafening "Hallelujah...
...DOVE WITH THE BOUGH OF OLIVE (279 pp.)-Dunstan Thompson-Simon & Schuster...
Author Thompson has the courage of his convictions. But before they reach the final, melodramatic pages, his readers may long for Graham Greener pastures: they must listen to page upon page of second-rate smart talk on the one hand and chummy religious matter on the other. The Dove with the Bough of Olive is a brave and interesting try, but it seems to prove that any author who attempts to mix the frivolities of Belgravia with the profundities of Heaven is in mortal danger of going straight to Hollywood...