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Last week, just as sure as daffodils, the circus opened in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. It was Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's 92nd spring. The ringmaster's "Children of all ages . . ." invocation was the same, but it was obvious that things had changed...
...rough and dirty fight, but most boxing fans had seen them rougher and tougher. The difference was that seldom had a nationwide TV audience been treated to so shocking a reminder of boxing's basic brutality. In the ring at Madison Square Garden, Welterweight Champion Benny ("Kid") Paret, 25, was battered unconscious by a furious twelfth-round assault from Challenger Emile Griffith...
...major "index of authorship" used in Mosteller's study is a word count. "For instance," he explained, "Hamilton uses the word 'enough' often, Madison only rarely." Mosteller thus might be able to determine that an article with enough "enough's" was probably written by Hamilton, always checking by the use of the recurrent words...
Another "index of authorship," average sentence length, was employed in a statistical study done elsewhere to determine whether or not a single person wrote the lliad. Mosteller tried this but found that it would not work with the Federalist problem, because Madison and Hamilton wrote sentences similar in length, moreover, they both shared "a complicated style and phrasing...
...American is a crazy mixed-up dodderer of a musical. The first act is a throwback to the old-fashioned football college comedy where education consists of numskull sessions and coeducation of necking sessions. The second (and last) act plunks a few blank cartridges into Madison Avenue, the most oversimplified U.S. symbol of evil since George F. Babbitt. To compound the sense of the archaic, the hero tumbles onstage with a planeload of European fellow immigrants to raise an Ellis-Islandish plea of ''melt us" before audiences that would rather be caught naked than stewing in the common...