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...Director Spielberg should have used the tank rather than the open seas, for, as anyone knows, pool sharks seldom forget their cues...
...Chamber Players continued this summer's Schumann cycle with the seldom-performed Piano Quartet (Op.47). The players attentively followed Weilerstein's expressive leadership in a lyrical reading that avoided histrionics. The string sound was beautifully blended, while Steven Finnerty soared through the luscious cello part with a big tone and impressive style...
...Golden Age of modern Boston baseball, when the Yankees were regarded with about as much affection as the National Socialist Party in Germany a few years before. Lynn might have been compared to Willie Mays the same early promise, the same fielding position--but comparisons like this seldom cross racial lines and the Williams DiMaggio axis conjures up memories of great days for the Red Sox and great days for baseball, both of which people are afraid to admit may be waning. And Lynn himself, and all-American nothing-too-flashy, cocky but thrilled-to-be here folks golden...
...black policy anyways: they point to plantation-owning owner Tom Yawkey, "Massa Tom," who is a very old and wildly wealthy man ("management and control of mines, mineral interests, timber lands, lumber and paper mills...") who doesn't hesitate to spend his riches in pursuit of a pennant. He seldom gets this pennant, and some claim that a decidedly loaded sense of priorities contributes to this poor record. The front office that negotiates the agreements that have junked so many black players is lily-white, or course, but this situation is not uncommon in American sport. Whatever degree of truth...
Stalin murdered millions, but seldom assassinated to enforce foreign policy. It might be argued that the elimination of Leon Trotsky in his Mexican exile in 1940 was an act of policy, but he was a Russian. A better example was the death of Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk in 1948, a defenestration that the official report described as suicide but was almost surely an act of the Kremlin...