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...batter or sets picks for the pitcher. A double-play combination may radiate exquisite timing and cooperation, but the process of getting two runners out is still linear, a matter of performing one delicate, discrete act after another. Small wonder that writers, sitting alone and laboriously putting words to gether, respond sympathetically to both putouts and errors. In writing and base ball, the risk of embarrassment is high and the distance between competence and true distinction enormous. Most American children are taught English, and kids on the sand lot learn baseball's vocabulary of moves. The hard part...
...imported without customs duties . . . They would not have allowed the parliament to be degraded to its present state . . . They would not have allowed boys and girls to embarrass one another and call it dancing . . . They would not have allowed males and females to go to school to gether . . . They would not have allowed innocent girls to be placed under the hands of men teachers in schools . . They would have punched the government in the mouth They would have prevented the American experts from taking advantage...
Following this exemplary production, the Brooklyn Academy of Music Theater Company ought to be held to gether as a permanent repertory troupe. It consists of players whose passion is the theater and who possess talents of the highest distinction. Rosemary Harris could mesmerize an audience by reciting the multiplication table. Tovah Feldshuh is a steel butterfly, a young actress of electrifying presence and promise. As Masha, Ellen Burstyn lacks some consuming sensual hunger, but her parting embrace with Vershinin is a silent, agonized howl of lost love...
...deal stuck. As a portrait of Daley beamed benevolently down on them, the aldermen decorously voted for the agreed-upon candidates. Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, who had yielded his finance committee post to Frost, hailed the selection process. "We all came to gether and put aside personal ambitions and ego," said Vrdolyak, who is the other Croatian on the city council. "I myself lost three jobs last week...
...press secretary came to the boss, he was usually bearing bad tidings: the press was demanding to know this or that, impeachment seemed more imminent at the Capitol. "Get out! Get out!" Nixon was heard screaming at his chief spokesman one day. But the next day they sat to gether as though nothing had occurred...