Word: hemingway
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After sophomores Ryan Maki and Kevin Du were rebuffed in turn to open the frame, Collins again provided the Wildcats with an opening fewer than two minutes in, crossing into the Harvard zone 2-on-1, then dumping the puck cross-ice to winger Brett Hemingway at the right faceoff circle. All by himself, Hemingway snapped his shot off-target, then lost his footing and crashed into the boards to end the threat...
After sophomores Ryan Maki and Kevin Du were rebuffed in turn to open the frame, Collins again provided the Wildcats with an opening fewer than two minutes in, crossing into the Harvard zone 2-on-1, then dumping the puck cross-ice to winger Brett Hemingway at the right faceoff circle. All by himself, Hemingway snapped his shot off-target, then lost his footing and crashed into the boards to end the threat...
...Wildcats also thrive on the power play, converting on a whopping 24.6 percent of their chances, the second-highest rate in the nation. Hemingway leads all scorers with 11 man-advantage goals, while Callander and defenseman Brian Yandle each have nine...
Kelly isn't a deep thinker, but his Hemingway-style, run-on prose is powerfully effective in restoring to life the physical realities of an earlier age--real-life characters like Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Cab Calloway practically jostle you as they shoulder their way through smoky speakeasies, and the constant banging of the riveters provides a percussive sound track that drives the book. By the end, labor itself is the only pure thing left in Manhattan. Empire Rising is everything a period novel should be, but it illustrates a paradox bigger than any period: if they work hard...
...borrow a line from Hemingway, it would be pretty to think so. In fact, history teems with elections that have led to neither peace nor more democracy, from 1930s Germany to today's Haiti, Russia and Pakistan. Elections, if free and open, are a good thing. But, as our Founding Fathers understood, they're only part of the alchemy by which societies conjure up stability, security and happiness for their citizens...