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Ultimately, the sense of conditional freedom illuminates all his best work, which is to say nearly everything in this book. Oddly enough, given his Oxford education and bookish life, Larkin was one of the century's greatest pastoral poets. "At Grass" (about retired racehorses) and "First Sight" (about winter-born lambs) are hymns to the inexorable rhythms of the seasons, to which each human, unfortunately, has only a short-term invitation. "Church Going" deals with a man-made structure. A wayward cyclist stops out of curiosity and enters an empty house of worship: "Once I am sure there's nothing...
Renninger made a tough play of his own in the third inning of the B.U. game. Terriers' DH Mitch Goldstein sent a towering pop fly down the first base line. Battling the sun and the edge of the grass, Renninger bowled into the fence, but held on to the ball...
With runners on second and third, junior Tom Konjoyan blasted a single past the Engineers' third baseman, who was positioned on the grass. Harvard tied the score, and MIT brought in righthanded freshman Eric Hopkins...
...State Rep. Nicholas Paleologos (D-Woburn) said his state sponsored visit to Japan "was an eye-opener, and the grass is not always greener in the other's rice field, as it were...
...palm fronds rattle behind the right-field fence. The odors of peanuts, mustard and beer waft over the emerald green grass, and in the inebriating sunshine, laughter and catcalls issue from the bleachers. An eight-year-old boy waves a miniature bat, a bikini-clad college student ogles the first baseman, and a pair of guys in U.A.W. T shirts argue earned-run averages in the shade of an entryway tunnel. At the plate, a nervous hopeful up from the minors squares his batting helmet and prays to the puffy clouds above the orange groves: God, please send the next...