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Tiger coach Bill Muse assigned tight man-to-man coverage to Harvard's number seven, explosive Lyman Bullard, in hopes of shutting off the high-scoring sophomore and with it, the Harvard offense...
...might muse, would it not have been more reasonable, since the conference is being held in 1974, to have made it an even ten-year period between now and 1984? Ah, but that puts an al together different connotation on the pronouncements...
...continued to muse about the tour, a stubby black caddie with a pot-belly big enough to hold fifty practice balls lumbered over from the putting green. He was wearing one of the insufferably hot powder blue jump suits that are mandatory for caddies at Pleasant Valley, a white Houston Open golf cap, and, beneath his cap, a blue and white polka-dotted scarf that gave him a sort of piratical appearance. He looked at me rather suspiciously for a moment, then introduced himself as "Killer," and told me he remembered caddying for me back in Houston when...
...provocative book. Fogel, 47, is a professor of economics and history at the universities of Chicago and Rochester. Engerman, 38, is professor of economics and history at Rochester. Together they are the leading edge of a new wing of historians known as cliometricians because their methods marry Clio, the muse of history, to the practice of quantifying the past with the help of computers. They are armed with bar graphs, data banks and masses of statistics from all sorts of sources (some, like the New Orleans slave market records from 1804 to 1862, previously unexplored). They also have more...
...marriage in a long, unfinished and unfinishable novel. His wife Maureen--whose perfumed adoration and melodramatic rages recall Charlotte Haze, Lolita's mother--is the instrument which most threatens his manhood, most demands defense through the only means he knows--writing. Maureen claims that she could be Tarnopol's Muse, if only he'd let her. The problem is exactly that she is his Muse, irresistibly, inescapably. She is what his literary psychoanalysis is all about...