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Gordie Howe, the 51-year-old wunderkind of the Hartford Whalers, is unique. At the beginning of the 1970s, if you were a hocky fan in Toronto, you tried to see Detroit play the Maple Leafs. Not because the Red Wings had a stellar team--in fact, they were terrible...
Tynan pays his respects to criticism in shrewd analyses of Richardson's performances and brief exegeses of Stoppard's plays. But mainly the author aims to please both his subjects and his readers. He is dazzled by Stoppard's stylish pessimism and flashy wordplay, yet wisely blocks...
In front of the hotel two autograph hounds attacked Arnold. The pair went to have tea, chatted about the Longinian ideal, the habit of greatness, idols--Arnold's idol in acting was Burt Reynolds. Arnold bantered with the waiters, it was always Arnold, not Arnold Schwarzenegger or Mr. Schwarzenegger or...
Along with thousands of students throughout the world, I looked towards Harvard as an example of what a great university is. But an article in The Crimson ("The Missing CUE," Oct. 29) changed my attitude. The article explained how CUE--a committee in which students and faculty express their opinions...
"You were silly like us," Auden wrote of Irish Poet William Butler Yeats, but the truth is that Yeats was sillier, more willing to appear foolish and embrace mumbo jumbo in service to his art. Auden's way was very different, circumspect; his poetry achieved greatness but never reached...