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...really great think is that Harvard softball is no longer taken as a joke. Even as a club-sport we were out there to play and excel, as ourselves, as athletes; but most important as a team. We did that; all the varsity status does is propel our position to another level...
People don't propel bullets-guns...
Television is lowbrow--our electronic lowest common denominator--and it has none of the charm (like, say, detective novels) to propel it into the realm of any sort of artistic appreciation. It's not just the game shows, and it's not just those godawful pre fabricated housewives choosing between potatoes or stuffing or sinus drainer. It goes beyond that, somehow. There's always been a certain embarrassment about television, as if at its center were some yawning pit, some frivolous darkness upon which we can project the worst of our adolescent self-images...
Dietz of course, is elated that his prodigy will be joining other stellar incoming freshman like Marybeth Linzmeier and Stephanie Elkins at Stanford next year, and he hopes that this new blood will help propel the Cardinals past the Texas Longhorns next year in the AIAW Championships. Hurt by the mid-season retirement of backstroke queen Linda Jezek, and the physical ailments of Janet Buchan, the Stanford aquawomen just missed regaining their national title in Columbia. South Carolina last month...
Such passages are rarely dull, but they do produce a peculiar lifelessness in the novel as a whole. There is little to propel the reader forward except the expectation of more information. Vidal provides a multitude of incidents but no strong plot to bind them together. Cyrus abjures suspense; he has the habit of introducing characters by telling what finally happens to them first. Aside from the old man's large memory, Creation is unified by a single irony: Cyrus tells of his search for religious certainty to the person who will one day become an eminent philosopher...