Word: roth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though newer sports gained popularity, baseball remained the preference of succeeding generations of writers, including Bernard Malamud, Irwin Shaw, Mark Harris and Philip Roth. The reason seems clear. Baseball is the most solitary of team endeavors. Nobody blocks for the batter or sets picks for the pitcher. A double-play combination may radiate exquisite timing and cooperation, but the process of getting two runners out is still linear, a matter of performing one delicate, discrete act after another. Small wonder that writers, sitting alone and laboriously putting words to gether, respond sympathetically to both putouts and errors. In writing...
...Creeley, founder of the Black Mountain Review, says that "to be published in the Kenyan Review was too much like being 'tapped' for a fraternity." United only in their dislike of New York publishing and each other, the little magazines were starting points for Hemingway, Faulkner, Philip Roth, Joseph Heller-and just about every other significant American writer of the past half-century...
...music and Sager's lyrics score no higher than Bs, but they possess a finger-snapping vitality that turns explosive in the title number. A well-earned A goes to Douglas W. Schmidt's stunningly sophisticated sets, Tharon Musser's evocative lighting and Ann Roth's clever costumes. Great joy has come to Shubert Alley...
...NOTEBOOK: George Hughes, who leads the icemen in scoring with 9-12-21 (goals-assists-points) now needs just one point in his next game to pass Randy Roth '75 and move into fourth place on the all-time Harvard scoring parade...
George's slate now boasts nine goals and three assists in Harvard's first six games. The man needs just 19 points to move into the number three position in Harvard career scoring, surpassing such stars as David Hynes '73, Randy Roth '75, and Bob McManama '73. And then, hopefully, George will play for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team at Lake Placid...