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...defensive unit applied constant pressure and notched seven safeties in the first quarter. At this point, Brown sent in heavy-duty center Jane Trow-bridge, a shoe-in for All-Ivy honors. The Herald then began to grind out yardage and threatened several times...
...world their grandparents knew. It contains a washtub with hand wringer, a coffee grinder, butter churn, mechanical apple peeler and a 1927 Atwater-Kent radio-all in working order. In the Algonquin Indian exhibit, children who once learned about Indians by watching a movie and looking at artifacts now grind maize in stone mortars, chip arrowheads and munch dried berries...
...OBVIOUS that the villain of the story is They. Mrs. Ellmann does a good job of pinning down the general view of femininity; she even manages to grind her axe gently. But instead of explaining why the view exists and how it affects real women she trails off in feeble optimism. She argues that writing and opinions are moving toward a mode of indecision, a non-judging, antiabsolutist, amoral, particularized view of life in which no form the species can take is not somehow acceptable and in which the artist's aim is to become rather than to judge...
LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS spins through four different steps in the mating dance. The first three playlets are gently amusing, and the fourth, enhanced by Richard Castellano as a man whose marriage is a desperate grind, foams with compassionate laughter...
Then, a few years ago, the paper began to wilt. The exposes became rarer, the style more turgid. Weary of the 40,000-word weekly grind, Dugger turned to more leisurely writing, including a soon-to-be-published book about Lyndon Johnson. His most gifted cronies took off in other literary directions. Robert Sherrill baited the occupant of the White House with The Accidental President and Gothic Politics in the Deep South. Larry King began a successful career as a freelance writer and gadfly. Perhaps the greatest loss was Morris, who headed for New York in 1963, wrote North Toward...