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Come the season's final day, after only 184 innings, he stood just 14 strikeouts from 300. During doubleheaders, minor league games are shortened to seven innings. "No way possible," Gooden thought, "can I get 14 strikeouts in seven innings." But the fervor of his teammates stirred him. "Each time I came back into the dugout, our players would count them up. It was the only game I ever played where I tried to strike out every man I faced." The Hagerstown Suns were the opponents, but Gooden remembers none of the hitters. He saw only the bats. "Every pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dr. K Is King of the Hill | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...Dick Ebersol got the show back on a firmer, though slicker, course from which Eddie Murphy busted loose, as did his pal Joe Piscopo. Then Ebersol left, and Michaels, with a new cast and a lot of the old staff, took over again, but without the original brew of fervor and innocence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flying and Crashing in Mig Alley Saturday Night | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

While last year, divestment activists concentrated on recapturing the fervor of the past, this year they will be concentrating on branching out and attempting to reach a broader section of the Harvard community. Members continue to solicit alumni support two nights a week, because as Sara L. Szanton '88, SASC coordinator of the drive, says "alumni are a lot more powerful than...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Blossoming With the Spring Flowers | 2/27/1986 | See Source »

...idea of the very small as metaphor of the very large without being very explicit about it. The paint surface is too rough for that: heavily worked over, it is long on touch but short on info. At the same time, its muddy strength has little of the impetuous fervor of recent neoexpressionist painting. It is crusty and rather stolid. So what is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Obliquely Addressing Nature | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...Dream, the most successful purely instrumental interpretation of Shakespeare ever written. Yet Mendelssohn had the emotional range to evoke the craggy, forbidding atmosphere of the Hebrides in his "Fingal's Cave" Overture, summon up the combative spirit of the Scottish highlands in his Third Symphony and capture the religious fervor of Lutheranism in the "Reformation" Symphony. His was a winning, unaffected, protean talent that, like Mozart's or Schubert's, was snuffed out too early by his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Throwing Down the Gauntlet | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

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