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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beatles have another delicate device with which they involve their audience--use of the personna. It never failed Robert Browning who made it famous in such poems as "My Last Duchess." Most of the songs are built around a certain personality whom we know pretty well after a couple of listenings, and it is by writing about different kinds of persons, not just different kinds of loneliness, that the Beatles cut their huge main theme down to life size...
...Beatles are artists of the eclectic-improver variety (most famous example: Shakespeare), and like Shakespeare they are constantly picking up new styles and moods. In their musical celebrity world they are exposed to new contacts: their new-found acquaintances range from Ravi Shanker, who is teaching Harrison the entirely non-Western discipline of the sitar, to the Amadeus String Quartet (unsurpassed even by the Budapest), which recorded the background for "Eleanor Rigby" and which has leant the Beatles some of the Western tradition. Lennon and McCartney read voraciously, and they might borrow inspiration as easily from Eugene O'Neill...
...years later. "It was obvious from the start," says his father, now 70, "that Bus had what it takes to be a great sailor." When he was only 16, Cornelius ("Corny") Shields asked him to sail on his Interna tional Dinghy team-a high honor, indeed, coming from the famous "Grey Fox" of U.S. yachting (TIME cover, July 27, 1953). But Emil Sr. felt Bus still had lots to learn. "The thing that made me mad was his extreme conserva tism-especially with money. I remember once he was racing in the Midget Star class during Manhasset Race Week...
...ever use his famous "tailing start?" No. Did he deliberately engage Gretel in tacking duels? Not on your life: pound for pound, Gretel's crewmen were Goliaths compared with Weatherly's, and besides, her winches were nearly twice as effective. There were lots of other ways. In one race, Sturrock was coming up fast on a reach, and seemed certain to overtake the slower Weatherly. So Mosbacher started changing spinnakers; there was no reason for it, but Sturrock assumed there was, promptly followed suit-and the resulting loss of momentum preserved Weatherly's lead and cost Gretel...
Shades of the Gashouse Gang! Not half a dozen of the 1967 Cardinals were yet born when the famous old Redbird team was terrorizing the National League in the mid-1950s - but the family resemblance is unmistakable. There is Lou Brock dashing madly for second and sliding in safely with his 36th sto len base of the season. Curt Flood running full tilt into the centerfield wall to spear a liner that otherwise would have been a sure extra-base hit. Roger Maris crossing up the pulled-back enemy infield with a perfectly placed drag bunt. Orlando Cepeda explaining...