Word: marke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mark turned Hegel upside down...
...this devastating attack is Carew. He is a slim (6 ft., 170 Ibs.), graceful line-drive hitter who tops all major-league batsmen with a sparkling .356 average. Cat-quick, he has already tied a major-league mark by stealing home seven times this season. Behind him in the batting order comes Killebrew, 33, a chunky (6 ft., 210 Ibs.), balding veteran of 15 years in the majors, who is one of the most feared long-ball hitters in the game (total career home runs: 428). The very fact that Carew gets on base so often has helped Killebrew pile...
...plot is as simple as a storybook. Philip (Mark Lester) is a ten-year-old child who wanders the moors of Devonshire, wondering at the endless varieties of nature around him. His only companion is a retired colonel (John Mills) who teaches him how to identify wildlife and how to train and fly a falcon. But Philip cannot communicate either his enthusiasm or thanks: he is autistic, a puzzle and a burden to his parents for most of his life. It is not until after he encounters a wild white colt early one morning that he begins even to respond...
...inanimate as well as living things. When the colonel searches a birdwatcher's guide for an entry, the book assumes an identity of its own; notes are scribbled in the margin, the pages are dirty and soiled, odd cards and scraps of paper are stuck between pages to mark essential passages. The characters, down to the most briefly glimpsed villager, are delineated with equal finesse. Perhaps what is finally so attractive about Run Free is this quality of care that bespeaks a deep reverence for and understanding of its young audience, and all audiences...
Varney and junior Skip Freeman were starters at offensive end last fall, and their clutch performances throughout the season and in the Yale game, in which they scored 14 of Harvard's 29 points, mark them as a threat equally as strong as the Crimson's ground game...