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SOFTBALL--There is nothing soft about a ball when it's travelling at 40 m.p.h. The Harvard softball team may be the most spirited group on campus and perhaps the most practical since someday they'll impress their colleagues at the company picnic
Right away on the river, he heard a mating snlpe flinging itself about the sky in order to impress its female, with a faint laughing ululation such as children make when hooting with their hands in front of their mouths. He saw some sandpipers, or "teeter-tails," tipping their tails as they searched for invertebrates. A gray marsh hawk seized a dazed and chilly frog before his eyes, and half a dozen geese were still dawdling south of their nesting ground in passionate but wary pairs...
Henry Kissinger still loves to mystify and impress with dogma he propounds to be true. Historians will not buy his arguments that the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, the anti-Establishment groups and the antiwar protesters were responsible for our defeat in Viet Nam. It is as if he and President Nixon were mere helpless spectators during this period of national crisis. The moral suasion required of our leaders to pull America through those last years of the Viet Nam War was lacking, both from Nixon and Kissinger...
Richard Slade's Piquillo combines with La Perichole to make a purposely awkward but rather endearing pair. They are quite comical as they fail to impress the local townfolk with their singing and dancing. Slade's soft tenor blends nicely with Hellmold's soprano, although the occasionally overpowers him. Hellmold's more natural stage presence also steels situation from Slade; she moves slowly but gracefully, suiting her steps and value to each song. After becoming "tipsy," for instance, she hiccups and belches her way through a number, teetering back and forth on the stage. And Hellmold's voice, even...
...make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises"; of World War Fs Field Marshal Haig that he "was brilliant to the top of his army boots"; of Lord Derby that he was "like a cushion who always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him." Devastating ad libs and insults are carefully crafted in Britain; Haig's was an impulsive throwaway. So there is no direct damage, except in embarrassment to Haig the next time he greets Carrington. It may even be mildly reassuring to learn...