Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NOWHERE IS UNCRITICAL, hackneyed writing more abundant than in the baseball biography. From Lou Gehrig; Boy of the Sandlots to The Jackie Jensen Story, diamond writers have a heritage of grinding out instant cliches. But no athlete has ever been subjected to more off-base Boswells than Babe Ruth. Occasionally, out of all those works claiming both authenticity and style, one will emerge which actually resurrects the Babe, making him much more than a candy bar or an overweight William Bendix. And Robert W. Creamer's Babe, the Legend Comes to Life does just that...
Some jurors, by dint of personality, have made stronger impressions than others. Ruth C. Gould, 57, the chic Government-loan specialist, seems to have set the sartorial pattern for her colleagues. She displays a varied and stylish wardrobe, and her example has apparently encouraged the others to spruce up. Gould is a leader in other respects as well. She has riveted her attention on the complex testimony, and jury watchers predict her election as forewoman...
Though no more libidinous than the strip shows at Paris' Crazy Horse Saloon, Last Fado was an erotic milestone for Lisbon. A month ago, a still bolder step was taken by Producer Ruth Escobar, 39, who offered audiences her production of a play called Autos Sacramentais (Sacramental Rites). A dramatization of the eternal struggle between good and evil, it featured 14 Brazilians of both sexes cavorting onstage au nature! for two hours. A 69-year-old orange farmer who watched the production remarked: "It would have been better if there had been more lights...
...Friedl of Duke University gingerly suggested to the 2,845 attending anthropologists that they look for work at junior colleges and in practical research-"directions for which the majority of us are ill prepared." Margaret Mead concurs about the need for practicality. In an interview with TIME Senior Correspondent Ruth Galvin, Mead charged that anthropologists are producing "academic versions of themselves and aren't oriented to things that need to be done in this world. They have spent too much tune discussing how many cross-cousins could dance on the head...
...Ruth Stevens, team captain, stymied her first-spot opponent with aggressive serving, while Susie Handy, Julia Moore and Becky Miles--in second, third and seventh spots--also won quick serving victories. Sally Blair and Emme Levin volleyed their opponents to defeat...