Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main problem of late for Coach Norm Shepard's squad has been pitching, which at the beginning of the year was considered a strong point. The hitting, been strong enough to make up for bases on balls and fatal defensive lapses...
...other starting pitcher is Dick Garibaldi, who was 3-1 with a 2.30 earned run average for last year's freshman team. Also a righthander, Garibaldi is faster than Yarbro but prone to wildness, which can be fatal in college baseball where so many runs are scored without the benefit of solid hits. The sophomore won one game on the training trip, and turned in an excellent relief turn. Against Tufts he survived a shaky first inning and went on to pitch four hitless innings before being removed for a pinchhitter during a rally...
Ikiru begins with an aging civil service employee's discovery that he has a fatal case of gastric cancer. The narrative twists through some five months, ending just after his death. The plot and characters are common place and simple. The film is an unpretentious Japanese story of a no more momentous event than the quiet death of an old man who has spent most of his life rubber-stamping documents no one cares about. Yet Ikiru is a powerful film, well worth the cost of a ticket and the time away from the books...
...Richard retired last year, the Canadiens have lacked the old luster that the great scorer-playmaker added to his team. Without him as a catalyst, such stars as Goalie Jacques Plante and Sharpshooter Jean Beliveau have seldom played up to their best. By season's end, complacency proved fatal. In contrast, the Black Hawks came into the play-offs in top form. Forward Ab McDonald's return from the injured list restored their stealthy "scooter line"-one of the lightest in the league. Brisk playmaking, sharp checking and the defense work of Goalie Glenn Hall (TIME...
...counted on the hoof or his quality measured in whether he carried a sword or a slingshot -but its quality that is baffling to the modern mind. Homeric life was not merely lived but ceremoniously acted out within a complex web of obligations linking gods and men in fatal and final patterns. There is a strong sense of reality in the Homeric world; the poet had a peasant's narrow eye for each man's just portion and place at table. This apparently simple world was ruled by a supernatural order; divine justice, immediate and dramatic, awaited "those...