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Keefe also started to come after the mile marker, but Campbell remained for back. At the three mile marker, Quirk began to fade and Northeastern's Rowe and Flanders pulled up in front of him. Then Campbell, who had unobtrusively begun to move up, passed Flanders and moved into third...
...deal of his own world view. Novels were years in the writing inconsistencies in thought between work's were fewer Today it's a rare thing indeed to find a good novelist who is consistent in his thought. Those few who can begin well with a first novel soon fade into mediocrity. Even those who write several good novels fad to remain faithful to their former selves. This inconstancy may be the result of literary commercialism--a system whereby an author is paid for books before they're written. But whatever the cause, it has left us to judge...
...year when Dartmouth has the talent and the depth to resume the sole domination of the League and the Big Green Indians enjoyed under ex-coach Bob Blackman. Last year, Darmouth had to settle for a tie with Cornell, but without almost Hiesman Trophy winner Ed Marinaro, Cornell should fade back into the middle of the pack, despite a good quarterback, Mark Allen, and a great linebacker, Bob Lally...
...years in Vietnam could capture and same idiosyncrasies and recount the same stories, that one work is not enough to establish Casey as a poet to be reckoned with. I would disagree. If his obsession with speech patterns smacked of phoniness, the impact of his work would fade quickly. But his achievement seems more impressive upon each rereading of his book. In fact, the skill in constructing poems to intense despite their apparent simplicity belies the feeling that he has done something within any observer's grasp. By producing a compassionate work whose success in conveying...
Dead Space. Kaufman does not hesitate to preach what he practices, irking conventional architects. "Handsome details and elegant proportions are meaningless," he says. "No one notices them; they fade into the canyon walls." He therefore deprecates Manhattan's architectural landmarks-Lud-wig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram building and Eero Saarinen's CBS building, for example-calling them "gigantic sculptures that do nothing for the city. Look at their plazas. Dead spaces!" Their tragic flaw, he insists, is that the architects designed the ground floor to relate to the building rather than to the street, where...