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That Harvard lost was not the fault of senior forward Chris Gallagher. Playing the best game of his career, "Rabbit" scored 32 points and grabbed 16 rebounds...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Cagers Suffer Ivy Loss To Penn and Princeton | 1/13/1969 | See Source »

...short turnaround which missed and fell into U.S.F. hands. Dullea was fouled but missed the free throw and, after a wild scramble, Kanuth and Hardy came away with the rebound. Harrison called timeout and set up a play for Gallagher to tie the game. The "Rabbit" spun in from the right corner, but leery of an offensive foul, went with a left-handed hook in the lane rather than continuing his drive...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Quintet, Skaters Finish Holiday Schedules | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

Lowry matches Updike's portrayal of Rabbit Angstrom's wife drunkenly drowning her baby in his scene showing the besotted Consul desperately trying to place a telephone call. The beauty, the wordiness, the luxury and the humor of his prose find expression again and again in sentences such...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Malcolm Lowry, 11 Years Dead, Is Pawing Through the Ashes of His One Great Work | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...Crusader Rabbit's sidekick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who Remembers Gerald McBoing - Boing? | 12/3/1968 | See Source »

Occasionally Nabokov plays games, as in the acrostic in "The Vane Sisters," but basically he eludes explication and literary criticism. He is a magician who gets us to watch the rabbit, not the false bottom of his hat. His style illuminates, it does not blind. In his autobiography, Speak, Memory, part of which is included in the present volume, he writes...

Author: By John Plotz, | Title: Barth and Nabokov: Come to the Funhouse, Lolita | 11/18/1968 | See Source »

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