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...grateful for the chance to play ball for all the nice folks in the stands, and, if they have the time, are also lay preachers for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. It's a wonderful world, baseball, full of unspoiled heroes and magnanimous owners and a pantheon of Gods whose names are Ruth and DiMaggio, Cobb and Williams, Musial and Wagner. Jim Bouton, like most American boys, believed so much in the dream that he wanted to be a "big leaguer." Ball Four is the story of his experience with one American myth...
...need not, as Pusey has, throw objective analysis out the window. There is a difference between good ideas and bad, and only a very frightened man loses the ability to differentiate. Finally Pusey is probably right. We no longer respect his Pantheon of rationalism above human life. And so we are threatening to bring down his tower, built, as he admits, upon the most tenuous of foundations. We believe that we are fighting for a better world. Objective proof of that must await the judgment of history. But on what we can understand here and now (and we must always...
Post no bills in another nation's pantheon should perhaps be a cardinal rule of international relations. When Richard Nixon went to Mexico two weeks ago to promote neighborly cooperation, both he and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz were probably unaware of a minor war of heroes that is being waged across their border as a result of some careless plinthmanship...
...Guards and now being revived, is aimed at the 14-to-25 age group. For those in the seven-to-14 category, Peking has created the Little Red Soldiers organization, a successor to the now-defunct Young Pioneers. The Little Red Soldiers already have their own pantheon of heroes. Most notable are the five children who are said to have perished while fighting a forest fire. Radio Peking solemnly insists they leaped into the flames snouting "Long live Chairman Mao!" and clutching their little red books of the Chairman's thoughts...
HARD TIMES by Studs Terkel. 462 pages. Pantheon...