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...typical American, the utter incompetence and inefficiency that have become part of our daily lives, the things we take in stride and pass off as "What more could you expect from that outfit?" are really an important part of the "mystique." By Sunday, we can no longer tolerate static, sloppy anything. On Sunday, the pro football fan becomes involved. We are now a real if vicarious part of the team. We are part of a decision-making group that, having made that decision, executes that plan in the exact manner and accomplishes a goal. We are part of an organization...
...Chile, a budding urban guerrilla outfit known as the M.I.R. was making considerable headway on the argument that Chile's traditional political approaches were not answering the country's social needs. M.I.R.'s march has been stalled, temporarily at least, by the election of Marxist Salvador Allende as Chile's President...
What worked for the Baltimore women, though, was no help to the Cincinnati wives. They knew that nothing is worse than a losing outfit. Mrs. Jim McGlothlin polished her fingernails just before going to the ballpark, then proceeded to peel off the polish as an antidote to nail biting. It is a ploy that Merle Hendricks, wife of Oriole Catcher Elrod, could have used: she gnawed her nails throughout the Series. Oriole Pitcher Dave McNally got one kiss goodbye and one kiss for good luck on the day he pitched. Should McNally have felt more amorous, it would have been...
...regimental ball, which seems to be the briskest, and perhaps the most arduous, campaign that this outfit was ever engaged in, Millington makes an unsuccessful pass at Mrs. Marjorie Hasseltine (Elizabeth Shepherd), who has a sub rosa reputation for being a courtesan among young subalterns. She charges him with attacking her, and a regimental court-martial is convened...
Muriel Spark's tenth novel is a portrait of insanity nearly as stark as madness itself. The heroine is Lise, a 34-year-old spinster who has worked in the same office in a North European city for 16 years. Having bought herself an ugly traveling outfit, she sets out for an unnamed southland ostensibly for a vacation, but really to find someone willing to kill...