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Both Columbia and Army will be on the Crimson block for the first and only time this year, and both are members of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League. Two wins would sharpen the Crimson's position in the loop-it has only two league wins to its credit, and one loss...
...begins, his nervous twinges disappear. He moves with disciplined relaxation; even at the finish line his face shows only concentration, with none of the agonized contortions of a last-ounce effort. As the competition gets keener, the only apparent effect is to key his reactions a bit tighter and sharpen his sense of timing. "When the pressure's on," he says, "I like it best." Between events, while other athletes trot nervously back & forth, talking and worrying, he tosses a towel over his head and lies down in the shelter of the stands until he is called...
...nothing less." Nonetheless, he graduates from college "with complete faith in dark eyes and written constitutions." He becomes engaged to Virgilia, a girl with a "mouth fresh as dawn and insatiable as death," but she jilts him for a politician. He survives the experience, and uses it to sharpen the Braz Cubas philosophy of life, also known as the Theory of Human Editions: "Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that, in turn, will be corrected...
...painted a reproduction of the Last Supper for a Franciscan refectory in Bengasi, Libya. Later, he pored over portraits of Leonardo by contemporary artists, studied descriptions, drew up charts detailing the painter's hair, beard, nose, eyes, mouth and cheekbones. He photographed the original to compress and sharpen the faded outlines, then worked in the features, adding light and shadow. After years of work, Ferri has a 328-page illustrated manuscript crammed with his notes and impressions. One impression: the Apostle Thaddeus' whole manner and bearing point to Leonardo; he is a man "indifferent to what is happening...
...full war or of comparative peace--when the government can afford to ignore production in the interests of suppressing inflation rigidly. But until then, the Hercules in the White House must slash away with whatever he has. A little good faith on the part of everyone concerned would sharpen his blade considerably...