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Ryder was an erratic painter, and his reputation rests on perhaps a dozen works, most of which are his famous "marines"--dark, concentrated images of the fishing smacks of his New England coastal youth, pitted against wind and wave. They concentrate the Romantic terrors of seascape; in them Ryder showed...
Like most Harvard students, I have had little contact with our country's armed forces. From the impression left by the evening news these days, one might feel that the military does nothing right. Whether it is sexual harassment or Marines blood-pinning each other, there is no question that...
Roth has frequently celebrated his once predominantly Jewish alma mater as something like a yeshiva of assimilation. Swede, so called for his tall, blond, blue-eyed good looks, is built for a speedy launch into the American mainstream. His luck seems endless. He joins the Marines as World War II...
The exception to these profligate rules is the Marines. In most cases, they're modifying existing aircraft with new engines and electronics, saving taxpayers gobs of money. Congress may also want to take a lesson from U.S. allies who are stretching their defense dollars. In Europe four nations recently began...
But another reason for the Japanization of American baseball is, simply, the Americanization of Japanese baseball. Players in Japan are watching more major league baseball and realizing there's not that much difference. Young players there are also aware of the greater independence, and rewards, enjoyed by their counterparts in...