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...better or worse, sports is an unequal field of endeavor. There are poor players, mediocre players and good players. And then there are great players...
Writing a novel about slavery in the U.S. would seem to be a fail-safe endeavor. The audience for such a book is already converted: the evil of owning men, women and children as chattel is shamefully obvious to everyone, and the heroes and villains are easy to tell apart. But it is precisely the contemporary consensus on human bondage that makes serious fiction on this subject so rare and so difficult to achieve. Imaginative literature at its best does not reinforce received opinions but disturbs them, puts them to the test of experience relived. And what is obvious...
...followed up with some snazzy films (Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me) and a few lame ones (You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun). Eventually, the pictures were faithful only to the titles of Fleming's novels and stories; now each screenplay was an original endeavor. But the basic Bond recipe was merely stirred, not shaken: Do it over, do it bigger, 'cause nobody does it better...
Guterman's summers of animated bliss led him to take animation here at Harvard. Then, he embarked upon the wonderful world of Harvard filmmaking. Rally (pronounced rah-lee), his aforementioned endeavor with "collaborator" Chapman, became the focus of Guterman's attentions during his final semester as a senior. "It's a macabre, black-comedy, murder-thriller kind of thing," Chapman says of the film...
...completing a difficult and risky endeavor despite constant publicity that made failure a disastrous prospect and despite loud public scoffing at ten delays, the U.S. has done itself proud. America has refused to panic at the Russians' edge in the space race; it has calmly and competently chipped away at it--although much remains to be done. Yesterday's congratulatory messages from friendly nations were more than just formal gestures. They expressed relief that in this realm at least the U.S. had begun to vindicate the faith of its allies...