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Helprin also has problems with dialogue, and manages in most of his stories to keep it to a minimum. Fourteen out of the twenty stories are very short--four or five pages in length--and some suffer from a long, descriptive introduction; expectations are created which are left unsatisfied by the brief action at the end. One of the strangest stories in the collection, "Katrina, Katrin'," begins with a valiant struggle to reproduce the everyday speech of office workers on a New York subway platform, then abruptly shifts to a long, narrative story-within-a-story, a form with which...
Harvard's touchdown came on a two-yard field goal effort by Winn. The third-period drive started with Harvard on its own 34-yard line. A fourteen-yard run up the middle and another 11-yard scamper by Winn highlighted the drive...
...House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texan whose favorite motto was "to get along, go along." That attitude helped make Rayburn the longest-tenured Speaker the House has ever had--he held the job for a total of 17 years--and probably the most influential politician in Texas history. Fourteen years after his death, Texas politics is still dominated by Rayburn proteges like John Connally, Lloyd Bentsen and others of the same ilk--practical, adaptable men who relish the exercise of power for its own sake and maintain a highly skeptical regard for principles and ideologies...
...last fourteen years of his life, Dostoevsky steadily grew more conservative. As a young man he had helped establish an underground socialist press, had been arrested by the Tsarist government and sentenced to death. At the very last moment before he was to face the firing squad, a messenger arrived with a commutation of his sentence to exile in Siberia. When he returned from Siberia, he espoused a mystical sort of slavophilism that stressed spiritual communion with "the Russian people...
...final score was every bit indicative of Radcliffe's total domination. Crimson waterwomen claimed a remarkable fourteen out of fifteen possible first places and ten out of fifteen possible second places. Wheaton's lone first place was in the 200-yard freestyle relay, the final event of the meet...