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...fiddler, but he has brought his guitar too. Since there is a shortage of guitarists today, he has agreed to play backup for more than half of the contestants. This means that he will be competing against himself, but this, he says, is commonplace; there is a pleasant quality of neighborliness at fiddlers' contests. He excuses himself to warm up Joe Lecouffe, 76, from Windsor, Vt., who is trying to play Redwing with blue fingers. Lecouffe says later that he learned to play his fiddle as a child in Canada, then gave it up and started again about...
...poem begins tranquilly, with recollections of childhood. The narrator's father is a real estate developer; his mother, in an upstairs bedroom of their pleasant suburban home, is dying of cancer. Here are the themes, announced at once: In the child's mind, place is a masculine proposition, a dubious promise of the good life sketched out in survey maps, prospective buyers, and the cheerful desolation of lots. The female propositions--death, repose--flower from the middle of that promise. Place, which is everywhere present and palpable, is not quite real; and death, which is not present and everywhere palpable...
...expressed pleasant surprise at the quality of Ivy League soccer. "As a sophomore I really feared that high school would be the end of my soccer days," Carrillo said. "But, it's such a delight here. At this level, there's so much more talent and it's that much more...
Yardling Coco Trumbell's play provided a pleasant surprise, Cheng said, adding that Trumbell played with predictable zest, but tempered her enthusiasm and skill with an uncanny court sense rarely found in freshmen...
Both of us are loyal to the countries that nurtured us and protected us from rebellion and other follies. Indeed, America, like New Zealand, is often accused of being more British than Britain is, while Louisiana, like Quebec, hearkens back to an earlier and in many ways more pleasant France. No Englishman could show more excitement over a cricket match than the average sports-loving American, and last week's beginning of the World Cricket Series was a national ritual for most Americans. Louisiana, in turn, has retained that raffish, somewhat off-center charm we associate with all things...