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That's significant, because it reflects an interesting mood in Louisville this week. Nobody disputes the fact that John L. Greer's Foolish Pleasure is the horse to best this weekend, but by the same token no one is taking that victory for granted. In fact, the expectation is that Saturday's classic run at Churchill Downs will be just that: a spectacular horse race...
Richard Adams has written a second novel, and may the Great Bear God help him. It seems certain that he is in for a spell of heavyweight reviewing, the kind of borborygmic reappraisal the critical community indulges in when it feels slightly ill and foolish after a gorge of overpraise. What was overpraised, of course, was Watership Down, a bunny epic greeted last year as if it were a cross between Moby-Dick and The Wind in the Willows. The excessive praise was a critical phenomenon that occurs every year or so when reviewers tire of the stinginess that honesty...
...somewhat ambiguous in the article, is for a Palestinian state on the West Bank, perhaps in Gaza. Thus he wants Israel to relinquish territory to the PLO for the creation of a Palestinian State, but does not demand that such a state, at the outset, recognize Israel: "It is foolish to expect at this stage or in the near future, any West Bank state to give up what Mr. Arafat calls his dream. It is always foolish to ask people to give up dreams. The essence of international relations simply consists in creating conditions in which those dreams cannot...
Phoenician Women. "For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek," said Virginia Woolf, "because in our ignorance we should be the last in a classroom of schoolboys, for we do not even know how the language sounded..." This is the annual Greek-play-presented-in Greek. People who will understand the Greek already know much more than I do about the play. For those of us without Greek, past experience with these productions has led to a belief that they can be beautiful, fascinating experiences even for those who understand nothing directly, especially if you read...
...that the industry's first-quarter loss will be "worse than has ever before occurred, even during the Great Depression of the 1930s." No fewer than eight Northeast roads are in bankruptcy. And the Department of Transportation's new Secretary, William Coleman Jr., cautions: "It would be foolish simply to subsidize the rails. I think 20% of the nation's rail trackage ought to be abandoned...