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...settles down to his priestly duties. Words like "ritual," "legend" and "myth" labor in overtime. "Grace" takes on a double meaning. Old George Blanda is compared to Ulysses as he copes on "the green oval floor of the amphitheater" otherwise known as a football field. The "unforgettable stance and fluid swing" of Joe DiMaggio cannot be celebrated without cosmic theorizing. "Baseball is as close a liturgical enactment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant myth as the nation has," Novak writes. "It is to games what the Federalist Papers are to books...
...decade. The sarcasm peels off in layers. The phrases of the book, the pompous, eulogistic style, ridicule bureaucratic rhetoric, while the content, in its flagrant incredibility, attacks the chaos of the existing system and simultaneously mocks the faith that a communist future would be better ordered. And Roman traffic, fluid? Anyone who has ever heard those cliched cracks about the traffic jams of Rome will get that joke...
...Berawan arrive at this fluid structure starting from a premise of aristocracy. The co-op house gets there from the other direction...
...predecessors ended as victims of purges as soon as Mao decided they were departing from, rather than perpetuating his ideological line (see box). Says one senior Washington analyst: "The struggle is hardly over. The position of the army remains a question mark. It is still a very fluid situation...
...appeal: "It is just like Bobby Kennedy's." But Carter has not yet demonstrated that he can win in a northern industrial state against his major rivals, Jackson and Udall. His chance comes next week in Wisconsin and New York. The situation in both states was fluid, but the races shaped up last week as follows...