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...personal dramas in The Day of the Locust are so sour and abject that one understands why Schlesinger ended the film with such a desperate flourish. All the characters from the book are here: Homer Simpson (Donald Sutherland in a fine performance), the boggled Midwesterner whose hands, West said, "had a life of their own"; Harry Greener (Burgess Meredith), a busted-down vaudevillian whose daughter Faye (Karen Black) is the sort of teasing, intemperate beauty who slaughters men with a smile. Karen Black is a bothersome actress at best, strident and sloppy; she does not even have what acting schools...
...Harvard pitcher Don Driscoll belted a two-run homer in the seventh to give the Crimson a 2-1 lead, on the way to a 3-1 Greater Boston League (GBL) victory. Driscoll also pitched the full nine innings, scattering seven hits while fanning...
Driscoil, meanwhile, spaced the Husky hits out evenly, allowing one in each of the first four innings, and two (one, the homer by Marani) in the fifth. But after the fifth only two Huskies reached base, one on an error, who was later eradicated by an unassisted Hogan double play...
Hunter allowed just four hits, including a homer by Dwight Evans, before Cooper started the seventh inning with his line-drive single to right center field...
...Harvard batsmen, on the other hand, got a good deal of mileage out of their eight hits. The Crimson struck in the middle innings, getting three runs in the third, three in the fourth, one in the fifth, on a booming homer that DH Don Driscoll balsted out into the vast MIT tundra and finally two more in the sixth...