Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fell behind right away. A throwing error by Scott allowed Killebrew to score. That was all right. Scott was a clown. Still, it was Killebrew who scored. That ominous home run yesterday and now this first run. Evil seemed to have found its agent...
...second inning Yastrzemski muffed a bouncing single. Another run scored. Scott was a clown, but Yastrzemski was everything. By itself the error meant little--only a run. But one had to weigh its physic consequences, its value as a clue thrown out by fortune. Working backwards from the outcome one can always discover the clues. The problem was to work forwards--isolate the clues, determine their value, chart their relationships, and conclude the outcome in advance...
...could understand Versalles error. But one couldn't cope with Yastrzemski. Here education came to an end, blunted, then smothered by religion. It was existential--the clutch. All the past hits established at best probability--more likely possibility, which is to say nothing. And that this man continued to overpower these situations, seven out of eight times--holding our religious feeling in hand, toying with it, and with another hit driving that feeling still higher--that was inhuman...
...latest American step is a strategic error. Even "thin" U.S. systems may encourage the Russians to thicken theirs. The U.S. would feel compelled, no doubt, to keep up--and speed up what has been a fairly quiescent arms race. Affluent America can afford this no better than the frugal Soviets as McNamara openly admitted...
...died last February at 75, without having conceded his error of judgment...