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Tackles: Merlin Olsen, 21, Utah State; 6 ft. 5 in., 265 Ibs. Fate Echols, 22, Northwestern; 6 ft. 1 in., 255 Ibs. The nation's No. 1 college lineman, Olsen is a home-grown giant from Logan, Utah, who boasts brains as well as brawn: his scholastic average (3.96 out of a possible 4) is the highest in Utah State's College of Business. Tough and tenacious ("He doesn't block; he explodes"), Olsen could play either offense or defense with the pros. Smaller but extremely fast, Echols probably will be shifted to guard if he accepts...
Tell Me a Riddle, by Tillie Olsen. In these four short stories, the author writes with skill and compassionate knowledge of the radicals and working stiffs who fought the battles of U.S. labor when labor was still a movement...
...most striking style is that of Tillie Olsen, whose "Tell Me A Riddle" won first prize. Using an original kind of interior monologue, Miss Olsen chronicles the movement toward death of an immigrant Russian Jewess. Her husband cannot until the final scene sympathize with her, and her children have become sickeningly Americanized. She wants to be free, to live within herself, "and not move to the rhythms of others." Her health is failing, yet she resists medical care ("I need no doctors"). Her husband calls her by epithets that evoke stock characters: but she is not a stereotype...
...tell her what she already knows, that she is dying. But she cannot get close to her family; they talk of cars and supermarkets and amusement parks while in her mind she recalls the simpler joys of her youth. She is an uprooted; it is a credit to Miss Olsen's style that one can come to the Jewess' cry--"Where now? Not home yet?... Not home yet? Where is my home?"--and not despair of its baldness. The final scene is, as Poirier notes, "brilliantly timed," a climax of power evoking a grand release of tension in the reader...
Those who have been in known that it epitomizes all insane in American society Gold's choice of setting the effect of his message. max of this fine piece is al effective as Miss Olsen's flecting backwards over gone before, one sees how lessly Gold foreshadowed...