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...BASEBALL PURIST can take Luciano's description of the blunders as an expose. He can take it as a vicious strike right at the heart of baseball's integrity. Or he can take it simply as added color to an otherwise stand baseball world Luciano takes it in stride, and always with an air of tongue in cheek. "Hey, what did you expect," he would undoubtedly ask the righteous, "did you think the umpire was perfect...
PRACTICING HISTORY makes no attempt to prove a thesis: a random collection of essays on a random collection of topics, it rambles over almost 50 years. Yet Tuchman is a purist of sorts, and the freshness of her vision shines through. The book is a product of this vision. It speaks eloquently for a brand of history many historians seem to have forgotten...
...fundamentalist challenge is dangerous for Khomeini, particularly because his right-wing critics can outdo him in blind radicalism and rabble-rousing. An outstanding example of the obscure but dangerous figures growing angry with him is Sheikh Mahmoud Halabi, seventyish leader of a Shi'ite purist society. Halabi, says one Iranian writer, "is so right wing that compared with him, Khomeini is Karl Marx." Halabi criticizes the I.R.P. for its political accommodation with the Tudeh Party, Iran's pro-Moscow Communists. (The arrangement is designed to counter opposition from left-wing Muslims.) And he calls for a program against...
...play with an appetite for "deep meanings" that recalls the legend of the first-time viewer who exclaimed, "I don't know what everyone sees in this play--it's just a lot of cliched quotes strung together." A weighty interpretation is often provocative, even moving. But (the purist cries desperately), there must be a few subtleties of psychology or modernity that even Hamlet does not contain. And under the weight of speculation and experiment heaped on it by director Bill Cain, even Hamlet creaks...
...said, because the opposition to him was largely "ideological." Reagan, they added, saw the vote as a referendum on his own beliefs. The White House may have had an additional motive: Lefever was sponsored by powerful Jesse Helms of North Carolina, the Senate's self-appointed enforcer of purist conservatism...