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...Watching the Soviets play gave me some ideas," Taylor says. "It is the style I would like us to play in this country. We're in a rut now, with the pro influence...
...feared that he would fall into a rut, by developing his talents to the point where he could write easily, in a fully mature personal style. He worried that "style or technique may be a straitjacket which is the destroyer of a writer. It does seem to be true that when it becomes easy to write the writing is not likely to be any good. Facility can be the greatest danger in the world...
...young (average age: 29), New Times can be remarkably undogmatic about politics. Marshall Frady's examination of Democratic candidates in the current New Times comes down hard on several of them. Says Editor Jonathan Z. (for Zerbe) Larsen: "We want to avoid being trapped in a radical, youthquake rut. We're not conservative by any means, but we can be brutal on liberalism...
...class being attacked by fresh fruit, grew to sequences like the Killer Joke that caused everyone to die laughing. Ultimately, the Joke was taken over by the War Office and launched against the Nazis in the Ardennes. Another Python classic was the case of the listless cat. "In a rut," declared its owners, who thereupon called in the Confuse-A-Cat team, men in white coats who stage a full-scale military review. The cat watches without twitching a whisker. Then it suddenly goes crazy...
...defeated, 25-year-old. A supporter high school basketball player, he has seen his dreams of making the pros destroyed by a racist college coach, and he now sweats it out daily, working in a plant with yet another coach-his white foreman. He sees little change of this rut. Clinging tenaciously dreams of glory days gone by, and glory days that should have been, he turns bitter and self-paying and in the end destroys not only himself with his inability to rope with reality, but also the lives of those around him, in anger and frustration over...