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Homer says it is a rare man who is as good as his father, and the maxim should be twice as true for grandfathers. Vic Gatto scored 15 touchdowns during his senior year at Needham, Mass. High, but he fell three shy of the school record set by his maternal grandfather...
...taste makers found themselves caught up in the snaky tendrils of a self-conscious style called art nouveau. Not only candlesticks and furniture, but whole buildings were designed to flow with floral grace. From the Paris Métro stations of Hector Guimard to the décor of Maxim's, symmetry was out, organic flow was in, and nothing from the insect or aquatic world was too exotic. La Belle Époque lasted little more than a couple of decades (1880-1905), but in that brief span produced a series of small masterpieces, none more dazzling than...
Then I was young and foolish, to think that the hoary maxim, "pitching is 75 per cent of the game," was a bunch of . After all, what makes a like a few .300 hitters and muscle-men who can belt a every other game...
...family now stands at an awesome 60% of its after-tax income for one year. In a generation, most of the facts and beliefs about debt have profoundly changed. Virtually dead is the Puritan ethic that condemned spending beyond one's immediate earnings and followed Emerson's maxim...
...Maxim Gorky's life was the irresistible legend: unschooled Volga boatman turned great writer, angry appellant for Red Revolution, friend of Tolstoy and Lenin, humanist who loathed repression, diver to The Lower Depths and the grim, gritty world of his Childhood. In fact, judging from this careful exhumation of the man by Dan Levin, sometime novelist and lifelong Gorkyite, Gorky was at once a less noble and more tragic figure than his legend suggests...