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When book editor Herman Gollob finally put down his blue pencil in 1995--having spent more than 35 years polishing the works of such authors as Donald Barthelme, James Clavell, Arthur Hailey, Alex Haley, Bill Moyers and Leon Uris--he had the usual fuzzy plans for retirement. He imagined, as many of us do, that he would simply dive into the pile of books he had never read, the videos he had never watched, the CDs he had never heard...
...then something strange happened. A few weeks before retiring, Gollob went to see a performance of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes, the Oscar-nominated actor best known for playing an SS officer in Schindler's List. There was something about the production--its pace and precision--that Gollob found "galvanizing." It whetted his appetite for more Shakespeare. He started reading plays and watching PBS videotapes. Before long, his curiosity had grown into a full-blown obsession--and a new way of life, as Gollob explains in his book, Me and Shakespeare: Adventures with the Bard (Doubleday; $26), to be published...
...weeks ago, sitting at the Judson Grill, a sleek New York City hangout for publishing types, Gollob, 71, reflected on the path that has taken him on scholarly jaunts to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, to Oxford University and even to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. His interest in the Bard is only intensifying, the Houston-born Gollob says with a Texas twang. "You read Shakespeare like you read the Bible," he says. "Because he's rich in ambiguity, you find something new each time you read him, something you've missed...
Equally impressive was Shyjan's composure. After gaining a set point in the tiebreaker with a beautifully finessed crosscourt passing shot, Shyjan lost the next point when he hit the ball long. However, he responded by hitting a volley that Gollob could not handle to make the score...
Yale evened the score when Kennedy and Gollob rallied to take the first-doubles match from Zimmerman and Berry. The Harvard pair dominated the first set with a masterful display of volleying prowess, winning 6-1, but the duo dropped the next two sets...