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...psychiatrist, trying to bring Lily back to sanity by enacting her fantasies in life? Is he a master of metatheater, in which everyone must play a part? Or is he God? Although Urfe comes to fear for his mind, he cannot leave the island. "It's like being halfway through a book," he says, driven to follow the maze to its end regardless of twists and turns...
Krause, who holds the Harvard 1000-yard freestyle record, does not ordinarily swim the 200-yard butterfly; but coach William J. Brooks decided to use him in that spot along with John Munk and to have Munk swim the 1000-yard freestyle. The strategy paid off halfway as Krause and Munk swept the butterfly, although Munk finished second in the freestyle...
...Democrats have unveiled no grand schemes for the 91st Congress. Their main effort may well be to preserve and finance Great Society programs. Nixon is now in the process of determining how much he can safely demand-and how he can get the opposition to meet him halfway...
...more than its quota of revolutionary behavior was admirable. Unfortunately, you missed the whole point of what is taking place. This is not another Lutheran rage of 95 theses, nor is it merely another thrust against a latter-day Pius IX. It is not even an introduction to the halfway house of Callahan, Curran and Company. It is the death of the church. The young people with whom I communicate do not want a reformed church, a free church or an open church. They don't want any church, because they have grown free enough, mature enough...
...those moments that every performer dreads. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz was halfway through Rachmaninoff's Sonata in B-Flat at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. And then-poing!-the sound of string #17 (bass A-note) giving way on the Steinway concert grand. An embarrassed unease settled over the hall while a technician frantically made repairs. Finally, Horowitz completed the piece and responded to the thunderous ovation with four encores. Said the famed firm's president, Henry Z. Steinway: "Each time this happens I want to crawl into the woodwork." Soothed Horowitz: "It's like a flat tire...