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...football game," said Northeastern Coach Neil McPhee. "Both teams used their front-line pitching over the weekend. After that there is a tendency for high-scoring games...
...Yorker must have taught Wilkinson not to mess with success--why else would he use two two-syllable, nine-letter m-titles for his first two books? John McPhee has been writing about the same slice-of-life for all these years--why shouldn't Wilkinson...
...John McPhee's and Joe McGinniss's books on Alaska appealed to the national myth of God's country and the manly fantasy of Huck Finn's flight from Aunt Sally and her civilizing ways. In the 49th state, one confronted a mystical vastness in which solitude is often confused with freedom. John Rothchild is drawn to a less awe-inspiring part of America: Florida, where the descendants & of the King and the Duke turned swamp into playgrounds and retirement pastures...
...father, Sam Avery, a semiretired film director with a gift for popular appeal. The son has won critical success for his magazine articles and books (which Arlen slyly depicts as exhaustive looks at narrow topics, resembling less his own work than that of his New Yorker colleague John McPhee); he is too constrained, too inward looking, to write in a way that could stir emotions and reach a mass audience. Tom believes that his happiness and security with his new wife will shield him from his father's belittling ways. But in the course of an awkward, misbegotten summer...
...point in La Place de la Concorde Suisse, McPhee describes maneuvers on the outskirts of a small alpine town. While the bullets whizz by above, the townspeople go about their business, not concerned with the activity above. It is hard to imagine a similar scene in the United States. Unlike the Swiss, Americans seem uncomfortable with the idea of the varied role the army can play within a nation's own borders. McPhee suggests that Americans have a lot to learn...