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...Pearson Hunt, Converse Professor of Finance and Banking, is replacing M. Colyer Crum, associate professor of Business Administration, as the Business School's representative. Hunt stood in for Crum at some ACSR meetings last year, and is familiar with the committee's work, Farber said...
...Housman did not have Bruce Pearson in mind when he wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young." Pearson, a third-string catcher for the New York Mammoths, is impossible to cast in the heroic Grecian mode. He is a Georgia backwoodsman who can't get the hang of spitting his tobacco accurately, let alone of making his teammates respect or even like him very much. His only distinction is that he has been prematurely touched by mortality, in the form of Hodgkin's disease...
Wiggen (Michael Moriarty), realizing that a marginal player like Pearson (Robert de Niro) will be released if management gets wind of his illness, ends a spring-training holdout by accepting less money than he is worth-if the owners will agree not to cut Bruce. His efforts to keep Bruce's secret from shrewd Skipper Dutch Schnell (Vincent Gardenia), to get the rest of the club to quit ragging a man they don't know is dying, and to encourage Bruce to play above his half-empty head, form the substance of a funny, gentle and honestly sentimental...
Wine Merchant Rod Pearson of Brentwood, Calif., suggests an alternative: "A Château Haut Bergy 1967 at $6 won't be as 'complex' as a Léoville-Poyferré, but the latter does not have three times the complexity...
Lover or artist? Neither or both? In the end, Bradley Pearson's designation scarcely matters, for The Black Prince is really the story of all souls who traffic with their demons in order to transcend, sometimes at a terrible risk, the meanness, the dull ness, the lower depths of being human. Blessed are those who live to tell about it, pre-eminently Iris Murdoch...