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SATURDAY: Grand Illusion. The first and the finest of the wartime-escape films, Jean Renoir's 1937 antiwar movie is a classic in every...
Orwell's autobiographical essays are better written and more interesting than any biography. He was one of the finest prose writers in this century. Abrahams and Stansky may claim that in an essay like "Such, Such Were the Joys" or a book such as Down and Out in Paris and London Orwell picks and chooses his incidents to make points, distoring his own life to develop a theme. But it does not take an extraordinarily keen intelligence to recognize that any writer does pick and choose events, even biographers such as Abrahams and Stansky...
...published Forge of Democracy: The House of Representatives, and seven years later he wrote Dirksen: Portrait of a Public Man. MacNeil also owns what is perhaps the nation's finest private library on Congress, a collection that includes scarce chronicles from the body's earliest years. Among the items: all but two issues of Congressional Debates (1789-91), compiled by Thomas Lloyd, the first legislative reporter, and the original issue of View from the Congress Gallery (1795), by Peter Porcupine (Reporter William Cobbett). "It is never lonely at my house late at night after the kids have gone...
...Most Valuable Player once (1966), led the league in hitting four times, won a dozen Golden Glove awards for fielding and was elected to the league's All-Star team twelve times. His lifetime batting average of .317 was the highest among all active players. His finest hour came in the 1971 World Series when, with a blistering .414 average at bat and assorted marvels afield, he all but singlehanded defeated the favored Baltimore Orioles. Such seasoned managers as Dick Williams of the Oakland A's and Harry Walker of the Houston Astros say the same thing: Roberto...
...number of eagers turned in fine individual performances over the weekend. Forward Tony Jenkins continued shooting at a blistering pace, throwing in long range jumpers against all three opponents. The 6'8" junior has overcome the awkwardness he displayed so phomoreyear and has developed into one of the finest forwards in the East. Jenkins intimidated B.C.'s center Mark Raterink and held him to 12 points. Saturday night Raterink had scored 31 points against villanova. If Jenkins would go to the basket more on the fast break instead of pulling up for his favorte jump shot, he would be even...