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...self-analysis, a passion for ideas, a stubborn sense of responsibility. All this is amply evident in the new Commentary Reader, edited by Norman Podhoretz (Atheneum; $12.50), a selection of some of the magazine's best articles written by some of the era's shrewdest minds: Sidney Hook, Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, George Lichtheim, Daniel Bell. The book also contains a sampling of Commentary short stories (Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Wallace Markfield), which invariably carry a social message...
Punctuating the uninteresting procession of runners across the plate were a few legitimate highlights: John Dockery left the Brandeis catcher gaping with a breathtaking hook slide following a first-inning foul grounder by Jeff Grate. The Judges' center fielder retreated to the infield of the freshman diamond when Lord came to the plate after his first-inning triple. Brandeis caught Grate off third base with the old hidden ball trick. And Jim Tobin got a 20-foot "triple" when at least four Judges mishandled the ball...
...crowd of several hundred including a school of shells on the Charles watched police struggle for two tours to dredge the car from the river. Two police scuba divers finally attached a tow hook to the submerged automobile and dragged it from the river up the bank of the Charles...
Speaking in Lowell with a hook-up to Burr, Rogers, who is currently a Resident Fellow at the Western Behavorial Science Institute in La Jolla, Calif., called teaching a "vastly overrated function," and described the real goal of teachers as the facilitation of learning. The trully educated man, he said, is the man who has learned how to learn...
...outreached by three inches, Chuvalo was totally practical. "I am a rough fighter, bordering on the dirty," he admitted. "I have to overpower Clay, wear him down, run him into the ground." In the first round, he rifled a left at Clay's kneecap and followed with a hook to the groin. He then grabbed hold of the champion's neck with one glove, whaled away at Clay's kidneys with the other...