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Thursday night the fans in the right field bleachers displayed a big sign reading "Bring Marv Back." Marvelous Marv was the exemplar of the Mets' incompetence, the avatar of their hopes. An itinerant athlete, cast off most recently by the Yanks, he was picked up by the scavengers fabricating a 1962 National League team for New York. He endeared himself by providing some of the season's few heroic moments (ninth-inning, game-winning, pinch-hit home runs) and some of the many ghastly ones (a long drive good for a triple, except that Marv missed both first and second...
Harvard College purports to be an outstanding exemplar of liberal education. It promises to be a place where an understanding of human ways is transmitted from teacher to student, which reason is honored and used to criticize convention and prejudice...
...reader is encouraged to believe that this new novel by Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat is about the celebrated defection of British Diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. It is an exemplar, say the publishers, of a series dramatizing issues "weighing upon men's minds in the mid-Twentieth Century...
Died. Egon Petri, 81, pianist exemplar of Liszt's fluidly romantic style, the urbane son of a Dutch musical family, who was revered in Russia as the first foreign pianist permitted to tour (in 1923) by the Bolsheviks and later fled the Nazis to the U.S. where he taught at Cornell, Mills College and the San Francisco Conservatory; of a stroke; in Berkeley, Calif...
...appeal is chiefly to the young, who have branched out from the standard English and American ballads to the blues (whose high priest is Josh White), labor union songs, Scottish and Irish ballads (Annie Laurie, Cockles and Mussels), and international songs (of which Theodore Bikel is the exemplar). The songs, says one aficionado earnestly, "are a fine way to tell about yourself. Almost nobody has the words to really talk about their lives. With the guitar and some old songs, you can hint about it though...