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...were down they rallied us. They’re guys we look up to, since they’ve been playing a high level of water polo for a long time.” The Crimson will certainly look to steady leadership, both from players and head coach Erik Farrar, as it works to remedy its inconsistent play. “[Coach Farrar] seems encouraged with how we’ve been doing on offense,” Connolly said. “But, there’s going to be a lot of practice on defense tomorrow...
...indications that this Crimson squad has begun to gel after back-to-back years of solid recruiting. “We’re really getting used to playing together,” Connolly said. “We’re comfortable with the rotations coach Farrar is using, which is really encouraging heading into MIT this Thursday.” With concrete objectives and three months to grow together, this constantly improving Harvard squad will look to continue making strides in the pool. Harvard faces a tough MIT team on Thursday before hosting the ECAC championships...
...tremendous power in American fiction. She's the author of Housekeeping, a transcendently weird, overpoweringly sad book that was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1982, and Gilead, which won it in 2005, almost a quarter-century later. When Robinson writes--as she does in her new novel, Home (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 325 pages)--that the white hair of a sleeping old man is "like harmless aspiration, like a mist given off by the endless work of dreaming," her similes are so precise and so beautiful that one knows one should not be bored. In her essays, Robinson...
...fiction works (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 265 pages), James Wood tells a story from Joseph Roth's The Radetzky March, a novel that since its publication in 1932 has probably been read by only two people, namely James Wood and Joseph Roth. A military officer visits his servant, who is on his deathbed. When the officer enters, the old servant tries to click his heels together, even though he is under the covers and his feet are bare. It's a moment of deep, lancing pathos, when you seem to take in both characters' entire lives for an instant...
Blount has written introductions for six editions of Twain's work. His next book, Alphabet Juice, will be published in October by Farrar, Straus & Giroux...