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...first game back, against MIT last week, Catliff scored his team's first goal and assisted on another in Harvard's 3-0 romp...
...composer's son and revived in the West End last year, Me and My Girl treats its material with respect: there is no modernization of the book or score, no overlay of contemporary cynicism, no relevance of any sort, just millionaires singing and dancing. The result is a jubilant romp that has spectators cheering and leaping like shortstops to catch balloons dropped from the ceiling at the finale...
...descriptions of the insensitive technology of pig farming and "porcine stress syndrome" take the fun out of a ham sandwich. Yet In the Company of Animals is not intended to change our habits but to open our minds. Historians, psychologists, sociologists and Lady Beaverbrook may resent Serpell's romp through their territories. Both petted and petless readers should welcome the incursions...
...white guys are tarnishing the rest of the West's whites. Somebody ought to be concerned with the oppressed and not reforming the oppressor. You can't teach cancer a lesson. But the real problem is that it always seems that America, when it goes on a moral romp, insists that in order for a people to be free they must be West...
James never forgets that baseball is supposed to be fun. His Historical Abstract, a playful decade-by-decade romp through baseball's past, picks the best and worst in many unlikely categories, including the logical selection of former Pitcher Don Mossi as the ugliest major leaguer of all time. Along the way, James explains why insulting nicknames, like that of Hugh ("Losing Pitcher") Mulcahy, tended to disappear in the '40s, how the coach's box evolved as an attempt to reduce violence in the days when baseball was a blood sport, and why the fatal beaning of Ray Chapman...