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...pleased her that football "arouses only the most simple and normal emotions" and "offers no particular inducement to betting." She wrote: "Of course it is brutal. So is Homer brutal, and Tolstoi; that is, they all alike appeal to the crude savage instincts of men. We have not outgrown all our old animal instincts yet, heaven grant we never shall! The moment that, as a nation, we lose brute force, or an admiration for brute force, from that moment poetry and art are forever dead among us, and we will have nothing but grammar and mathematics left. The only...
Many readers of John Skow's story on the National Survival Game [July 19] will undoubtedly ask how men find pleasure in playing war the way they did when they were children. Some aspects of human nature are never outgrown. At the end of the day, I'm sure, the participants had a stronger awareness of the will to win, of courage, camaraderie and self-preservation. By failing to recognize these traits in all people, an entire nation can be gulled into...
Allen did try-eight times, from Play It Again Sam to Manhattan-to the kind of crescendoing acclaim that might sound monotonous to an ambitious artist. Like Chaplin after The Great Dictator, Allen may have felt he had outgrown both the comic character he created and inhabited and the kind of movie his audience expected of him. And so Allen has pulled his persona out of shape, stretching the sad-clown face to accommodate loftier musings. In reaction, moviegoers have pulled back: a Woody Allen movie is not the purring money machine it used...
Woody Allen has chosen to jettison those aspects of his comedy that made him a national endearment, while clinging to acting and directing mannerisms that even his audience may have outgrown. Has he lost the knack? Or just misplaced it? An answer should come soon enough. His next film-not a period piece, we are advised-surfaces at Christmas. Pray it's not called Twelfth Night. -By Richard Corliss
...Diana has made a really good captain because she is one of the hardest workers on the team and she has always been so supportive of everyone else," junior Cindy Phillips said. "We always tease her and say that she hasn't outgrown being a freshman because it is traditional that the freshmen carry the equipment at the end of the game, but Diane is still doing...