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...lose, Whitey Ford takes his baseball with the same deliberate, almost insolent coolness. Says he: "I don't fool around when it comes to pitching." Rounding out an even decade as a Yankee regular, Ford is on the way to his best year. He has a dazzling 16-2 record that has accounted for nearly one-third of his team's victories. He leads the league with 122 strikeouts, owns the highest lifetime won-lost percentage among all active major-league pitchers (149-61 for .710) and the lowest earned-run average, with 2.74. Yet for all these...
...vast bladders of honor, mountains of wrath, vestfuls of selfesteem, and it is a great pleasure to watch them cheat each other at cards or craftily set a derby hat in the street and wait for a sucker to break his toe on the brick inside. Each plays the fool well, and each also accomplishes the difficult trick of playing the wise man-Chevalier when he tells his young wife of an old man's love, and Boyer when he explains to Marius that the child Marius fathered now belongs rightfully to Panisse...
...Rosalind, who spends much of her time, however, disguised as a boy. (But one must recall that, in Elizabethan times, such an idea was more plausible, for the interdict against women on the stage meant that female roles were played by boys anyway.) Shakespeare also tossed in court Fool (Touchstone) and misfit (Jaques)--both only partially successful...
...Shakespeare has delineated their roles with a screne certainly. Rosalind, so "full of voluble, laughing grace" (the phrase is Hazlitt's), dominates the forest, and her own investigation of the pastoral tradition is accompanied by the parallel but ultimately limited investigations of the comedy's two commentators, the material fool, Touchstone, and the melancholic traveler, Jaques...
...Bass in C minor, Chopin's Masurkas, Elgar's concerto in E minor (Opus 85), Barber's Overture to "The School for Scandal" (Opus 5), Adagio for Strings, Essay for Orchestra (no. 1, Opus 12), Rangstrom's King Erie's Songs, Divertimento Elegiaco for Strings, Holst's The Perfect Fool, Ballet Suite (Opus...