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...only problem with the book is that at times it is pretentious. The whole idea of a Harvard student leaving school to play in the bushes reduces the book in some ways to a fling a la George Plimpton. Wolff always knew that if the Tiger organization released him he could return to Harvard. But what we don't get are any insights into the feelings of a ballplayer who has been five years in the minors with only a high school education and nothing else to fall back...
...celebrities. As always, no one can cut the competition as well as he does. Zaire's President Mobutu reminds Mailer of "a snake around a stick." Fight Promoter Don King's intellectual pretensions are pricked by simply quoting his pronunciation of the German philosopher "Knees Itch." George Plimpton's genteel competitiveness makes him "a smokeless Vesuvius...
...Senator while Sirhan struck a pose in front of him, and with wild shots and dramatic gestures drew attention to himself. Sirhan, according to a psychiatric study done while he was in police custody, is extremely susceptible to hypnosis. This coincides with the statement of writer George Plimpton, an eyewitness to the assassination, that Sirhan appeared to be in a "trance" as he fired. Charach's theory would have Sirhan a dupe of the real assassin or assassins...
...last week, Eugene McCarthy opined, "The question should be: Do you want this man to go to bat for you?" The former semipro ballplayer in Minnesota's Great Soo League was fresh from a personal success on the playing fields of East Hampton, L.I. Invited to join George Plimpton, Peter Mathiessen and Wilfrid Sheed on the writers' team in an annual charity softball game between writers and artists, Poet McCarthy went three for three against strong opposition that included Fabric Designer Boris Kroll and Painters Syd Solomon and Jimmy Ernst. One line drive could have been a home...
There are celebrities--besides Finley, there's Ted Kennedy '54, George Plimpton '48, B.F. Skinner, Walter Jackson Bate '39, Leonard Bernstein '39, Derek Bok, Daniel Steiner '54, Burris Young '55, Alan Heimert, and Alfred Hitchcock (who is rear-projected--he's not really there). And the locations--inside the Library of Congress, the Fogg Museum, Grand Central Station, Harvard courtyards, Quebec City, the Plaza Hotel in New York, the New England Aquarium...