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...Buzzy Burns's tavern, with its row of convenient cabins out back. His wife Donna is both high-spirited and indecisive, but he settles her down with a tumbling succession of babies. His spinster sister Alma proves more difficult. She falls in love with soft-spoken Roger Larkin, a feckless Southerner who holds the depressed view that the U.S. is a giant pool table and he its eight ball: the Great Pool Player Upstairs puts him now in the side pocket of Louisiana, now in the corner pocket of Texas. While he wanders, Alma sits patiently home, waiting...
...times. He is, in fact, out of his times, a reactionary poet-clear, courtly, precise, varied in tone, passionate but restrained, using poetry as both a special ceremony and a daily occurrence. Ironically, to a great many of Britain's younger poets, among them Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, D. J. Enright and Elizabeth Jennings -sometimes collectively known as "The Movement"-Graves's old-fashioned vir tues seem highly contemporary. Writes British Critic Walter Allen: "It is as though the world has caught up with Graves so that, mysteriously, he even appears as one of the young...
Shepard could use Al Yarbro, who was recently reinstated to the team, but he hasn't worked in a few weeks. He also has Dave Larkin, who last pitched against B.C. last week, and possibly Dick Garibaldi, who relieved in the Brandels game...
...second hero was Dave Larkin, who pitched well enough to win most games. He allowed but two hits and one run after Kilroy's blast in the third and hit a run-scoring double. He also gave up only two walks in pitching the full nine distance...
...today's game Shepard will choose either Al Yarbro or Dave Larkin to start. Yarbro pitched well in his last start when he lost 5-4 no Northeastern. Larkin was impressive in early relief roles, but failed as a starter against Springfield, when the present Crimson losing streak began...