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...fact that someone has to throw the ball, someone has to hit it, and someone has to catch it. Do you copy, good buddy?" In the 1976 World Series, the Cincinnati Reds proved that they throw and hit and catch well enough to be copied into baseball lore...
...offers 23 courses in the Navajo language, history and culture. Students learn from Indian teachers how to shape clay without a wheel, sew moccasins with sheep sinews or shape baskets with sumac fibers. Andrew Natonabah is one of four medicine men who teach Navajo psychology, medicine, dances and tribal lore, and who often cure mentally disturbed students "by dancing them free of evil spirits." Says he: "When they leave here, our students understand more about their culture and are better prepared to meet the white man's world...
...black gourmande of some 50 years, whose recipes are marinated in memory and deep-fried in philosophy. If there is a single definitive guide to Southern cookery, it is American Cooking: Southern Style (TIME-LIFE Books), by Eugene Walter. It is often quoted by gourmets steeped in Southern lore and victuals...
...novelist; after a long illness; in Bronxville, N.Y. As a young English professor at the University of Alabama after World War I, Carmer wandered through the backwoods of the state, talking with natives both black and white. The result: Stars Fell on Alabama, a vivid collection of country lore. Its success led him back home to "York State," as he liked to call the 55 upstate New York counties, to write his loving chronicles of the region, including Listen for a Lonesome Drum, Dark Trees to the Wind and a novel, Genesee Fever. Carmer also published volumes on the Susquehanna...
Nonetheless, López Portillo mounted a grueling campaign to get acquainted with the voters, only a few hundred of whom had even heard his name when Echeverria picked him last September. Since then, his campaign bus Quetzalcoatl (for the plumed serpent of pre-Columbian lore) has logged 40,600 miles, traversing the countryside from the humid south to the High Sierras...