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...shuffles Charles Grice ("Lefty") Driesell, the loose, lanky (6ft. 4-in.) Maryland basketball coach. He is wearing a $250 double-knit suit and the "aw-shucks" grin of a plowboy at a tea dance, and when he casually flashes the awaited V-for-victory sign, the cheers resound all the louder. Lefty and his legions are ready for another game in their drive to become the nation's No. 1 college basketball team...
Those words, expressing the grief of the women of Canterbury at the murder of their archbishop, resound a little incongruously in a TV spot now being shown around the nation. President Nixon quotes them to show his enthusiasm for the fight against pollution. Last week, however, after mulling over the year's most important antipollution bill, the President vetoed...
...Sparky for a few days. The Yankees promptly lost three games in a row to Kansas City. But Houk was confident that Sparky, now fully rested, would "pick up as strong as ever." As the season entered its stretch drive, it seemed likely that Yankee Stadium would once again resound to the frequent rendition of Pomp and Circumstance...
...Nash appears in "One Man's Opiate," published late last year in The New Yorker. In it, he brings off an excruciating knock-knock joke in French-en route to his conclusion about the uses of laughter in the gloomy present: "In this age penumbral,/Let the timbrel resound in the tumbrel...
...fact he proves that the role of Jefferson is an actor's dream. Though he played it 429 times onstage, Jones has, if anything, grown fresher. He does not act the part so much as consume it, then let it shine out of his eyes and resound in his mouth: "If I lets it go too long, then everybody say, now ain't dat one shiftless nigger . . . an' if I chop him down quick, then dey holler dat po' man up dere fightin' a go-rilla!" When white folks watch, Jefferson plays animal or vegetable...