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...Crimson rallied in the top of the fifth asDecareau drove a high fastball into the leftcenter field bleachers to tie the score at 4-4. Itwas his second hit--and second homer--in the lastfour games...
...HARVARD IP H R ER BB K Forman (L) 1 5 7 3 1 1 Desrocher 2.7 2 1 1 2 2 Rau 1 3 5 3 0 1 Donahue 0.7 4 4 3 0 0 Hurley 1.7 3 2 0 2 1 two-run homer in the bottom of the second, butNortheastern rebounded in the third, plating tworuns on three Crimson errors. Huskies starter JohnSheehan shut the Crimson down, allowing only onemore hit while striking out seven, andNortheastern grabbed the lead in the top of theseventh on an RBI single by centerfielder JohnBuckley...
...Crimson beat a Red Sox single A team made up of players from Elmira and Winter Haven on March 25 by an 8-3 margin. Phil Andriola clubbed a three run homer in the sixth and Fletcher added a solo shot in the seventh to pace a 12- hit attack. Baxter, John Donahue and Tom Hurley combined to limit the Sox to three runs on six hits...
...until Homer's Dressing for the Carnival, 1877 -- beyond comparison the most moving and solidly imagined painting in the show -- were the subtlety, sympathy and fullness of Copley's rendering repeated. Nevertheless, there are times when McElroy's prosecutorial zeal gets away from him. Samuel Jennings' Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, 1792, may be a naive image, but no one could doubt that its heart is in the right place. It shows the Goddess of Freedom in her temple offering the emblems of civilization -- books, an artist's palette, a lyre, a globe and, most important...
What the American market mainly wanted before the Civil War was genre scenes of American life, which might or might not include blacks. Most American genre painting before Homer and Eakins was lowbrow stuff, in which blacks tended to get the roles played by the fiddling boors and carousing peasants in Dutch genre. They become lazy Sambos with watermelons, fiddling clowns, butts of practical jokes. But not all the time. "Sambo is not my man and brother," snorted William Makepeace Thackeray during his lecture tour of America in 1852-53. Yet when his secretary, Eyre Crowe, painted a group...