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...sports events would feature a recording of the national anthem by this band, or the Army or Navy band--with no vocalist! Let the people sing along if they wish. A really top-notch performance inspires allegiance as nothing else can. But the way many singers and musicians today render the national anthem is an abomination. If I'm watching TV, I turn off the sound until the anthem is finished. DAVID M. BARTHOLOMEW Dundee...
That was the glad nerve Ruth palpated. When he showed up with his superfluity of power, the apparently effortless capacity to render moot all the niggling fine points of the contest, the game was instantly changed. The bunt, the stolen base, the Baltimore chop were back-burnered for decades. Ruth's brash Yankees went to the 1923 World Series against the New York Giants, the classiest tacticians of their day. The series went to six games, but the Babe poled three into the right-field seats, and the Yankee dynasty had begun. Heywood Broun spoke for millions of delighted fans...
With so many traditional methods of narrative abandoned, what was left? Perhaps the clearest and most concise description of Joyce's technique came from the critic Edmund Wilson: "Joyce has attempted in Ulysses to render as exhaustively, as precisely and as directly as it is possible in words to do, what our participation in life is like--or rather, what it seems to us like as from moment to moment we live...
...imprisonment, have drawn international attention. The BBC has come to Seattle to film a documentary. Her image has been an alluring paradox: at once darling suburban teacher and predatory monster; so blond, so pretty, so...dangerous to children? She is more complicated, of course, and soon several magazines will render her in brushstrokes instead of spray paint. But even here there is haste: Mirabella and Spin rushed out advance copies of their articles last week to preview salacious disclosures. Letourneau, in jail but hardly incommunicado, expected less trumpeting and more deliberation, since she had cooperated closely with both writers...
...which would ordinarily spare him the death penalty for his 1979 slaying of grocery store clerk Mary Lou York. But under a Supreme Court ruling allowing states to medicate inmates? whose mental condition poses a danger to themselves or others, Singleton is forced to take the very drugs that render him sane enough to be executed...