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Roiter feels that her role as an elder co-captain helps her teammates to adapt as well--particularly to the game pressure...
...this latest incarnation of Sanders--thesophisticated elder statesman--that one would haveanticipated at the Regattabar. But the spirit ofthe 1970's seemed to resurge while the Sandersgroup was here, and, with the exception of onelovely version of the ballad "It's Easy ToRemember," the entire set consisted of the sort ofeasily digestable yet funky vamps that one couldcall "Crowd-pleasures...
...jaunty and straightforward as its title, Moo allows Smiley to turn literary and stylistic cartwheels all around the gym. She writes course-catalog entries, student-fiction papers and newspaper articles (even in Spanish). She masters billionaire talk, bovine-cloning monologues and the shrewd counsel of black elder sisters. In its easy virtuosity and wicked glee, Moo is rather like one of those comic novels in which John Updike gives himself a holiday from more draining work. And if Moo finally has more of a target than a point, it never allows us to forget that, in a certain context...
...Being a young poet myself, therefore having asincere love for words, the reading today waspowerful, moving, and insightful," Brown saidbefore speaking to Brooks. "I felt privileged tosit at the feet of an elder poet...
...myth was Leopold, the stern violinist and teacher from Augsburg who knew at once that to him had been given charge of music's greatest talent. Leopold may not have been the first stage father, but he defined the type, dragging the young Wolfgang and his nearly as virtuosic elder sister Nannerl through Europe to secure not only his son's reputation but the family's fortunes as well...