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Irony -- for which he has perfect pitch -- is his weapon of choice: "Alger Hiss always made his debut escorted by the Gods: He came to Washington with a reference from Felix Frankfurter and he went to Lewisburg ((prison)) with a reference to Frank Costello." In the sentence that opens an essay about one of his favorite subjects, the tragedy (or comedy) of the self-deluded rebel, Kempton dryly sums up another progressive hero: "Paul Robeson's was a career whose rise and fall were both tethered to his identity as a man of conspicuous color." Kempton's asperity...
Ubaldo stood at third with two outs when an odd sequence of events led to the winning run. Cicero, pitching to catcher Wilke, wild-pitched Ubaldo home on an attempted squeeze. Cicero said that there was a mix-up on the pitch with Wilke, but the rare two-out suicide squeeze attempt must have added to the confusion...
...They tried a squeeze with two outs," Cicero said. "But there was some confusion on what pitch was called...
...physical dynamics of the story. However, the composer Randy Eng's complex jazz style demands an immense amount of flexibility and vocal range from the performers. Brown in particular sings the difficult melodies with clarity and accuracy, but even she has some trouble carrying off the double notes in pitch. Although the singing improves through the course of the performance, all the singers struggle noticeably at one time or another just to finish a phrase...
...squad, currently a club team which expects to join the ranks of varsity line-ups next year, proved to be a meek opponent for Harvard. The Crimson, which has come on strong in recent games (winning six of the last seven), took control of the game from the initial pitch. In the first inning alone, Harvard managed to go through its entire batting order and take a commanding 5-0 lead...