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...creative people vary, and that when they get the chance to create according to their own lights, they will produce variety and vitality along with a broad range of quality, from awful to wonderful. If the show made that point to the Russians, whose own official art amounts to hack illustrations of a deadly sameness, the U.S. might well rest content...
Built-in Disposal. Last month, landed by a bush pilot on a glacier at 7,000 ft., the four began their long push-the kind of adventure that pales a plains dweller. At 12,500 ft., they labored nine hours to hack 7-by-7-ft. platform from a 45° ice slope, wryly called it Concentration Camp, complete, as one climber noted, "with a handy garbage disposal - a 1,600-ft. drop." Ahead lay two deadly perils: a pair of giant, swelling domes of blue ice that left them as exposed to the fickle Alaskan weather as flies...
...desire, then, set down No Place To Run as a rather impressive first installment from a talented young hack suffering from a fertile imagination and not much control. But I find it difficult to do that not only because Stone does have talent as a craftsman, but also because the book irritates...
...Philadelphia in 1923), and reached his high moment, playing for Philadelphia at the end of his career, when Connie Mack summoned him from the boneyard to be a surprise starter in the first game of the 1929 World Series and he struck out 13 Chicago Cubs (including Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson) to set a series record that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century-until Brooklyn's Carl Erskine mowed down 14 Yankees in the 1953 series; of cerebral meningitis; in Philadelphia...
...like himself) who reforms the church and the world, and dies a martyr. In The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, Rolfe told the truth, little less fantastic, about his years as a sort of gondola bum in Venice. Nicholas Crabbe concerns Rolfe as a pitiful but unpitying literary hack in turn-of-the-century London -badgered, betrayed and swindled by a gallery of grotesque clowns called publishers and editors. The spite of this novel is now 50 years old, but time has been no deodorant...