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Always a Surprise. Running the Yanks this hectic season, Casey was caught in a pennant race as wild and uncertain as his 1923 inside-the-park homer. He got started slowly; not until May 21 did the Yanks pick up the lead. July 1 saw them 6½ games in front. Then they stumbled. By the end of August, Cleveland and Chicago were fighting for first. But in September the Yanks made Casey look like a prophet. He said that the team that won eight straight in the stretch would wind up in the World Series against the Dodgers...
Wild Wilder. Skin turned out to be, in six full-house performances, the dramatic showpiece of Salute. Salute marked the first invasion of the laggardly U.S. onto a critical cultural battlefield of the cold war. Skin opened after only two hectic rehearsals in its Paris theater. Some 200 sittie-talkies caught a running translation for its French-speaking viewers. In general, Paris critics raved, though a few found it "furiously intellectual'' or "slightly incoherent...
...Thomson's later style. William Schuman's five piano pieces called Voyage (played by Beveridge Webster) include two that find the composer more absorbed in the web of his ponderous sonorities than a listener ever could be; other movements titillate the ear with a kind of hectic animation...
...hectic 2Oth century, the shortfall between the actual death of the Presidents and their life expectancy has averaged eight years...
...Marks. Between the insult and the honor, Captain Alfred Dreyfus had endured a personal agony that included four years of solitary imprisonment on Devil's Island. Because of the injustice done him, France had gone through a dozen of the most turbulent years in its hectic history and come close to civil...