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...such proximity between genius and madness in chess? There are three possible explanations. One is that chess is a monomania. You study it intensively day and night from childhood if you are going to rise to the ranks of the greats, and that kind of singular focus constricts your reality and makes you more vulnerable to distortions of it. "A chess genius," wrote George Steiner, "is a human being who focuses vast, little understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. Almost inevitably, this focus produces pathological symptoms of nervous stress and unreality." Plausible, perhaps, but there...
...whose ideals we share. In asking the Dems to disassociate from the HSF, the Republicans have misinterpreted both the role of HSF at the protest and the role of HSF as a student group on campus. The HSF appropriately represents a collection of progressive groups on campus, not the singular voice of any of its member groups or of its groups’ members...
...days. That orange dervish Boris Becker, 17, confirmed his Wimbledon tennis championship in West Germany's first Davis Cup victory over the U.S. (the best American, John McEnroe, avoided Hamburg). But of all the sunny events piled up against the bleakness of arbitration clauses and pension proposals, the singular one was actually contested in a rainstorm at the Butler National Golf Club near Chicago, ultimately for no money at all. Scott Verplank, 21, a student at Oklahoma State, became the first amateur in 31 years, since Gene Littler, to win a P.G.A. Tour event...
...everyone here in the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee is aware, this singular citizen--unprecedented and unlikely to be repeated--is the inventor, host, chief writer and principal song-and-dance man of an astonishing radio show called A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast by Minnesota Public Radio each Saturday at 5 p.m. Midwestern time. Usually it originates from the World Theater in St. Paul, but during renovations there, the program is on the road, tonight in Milwaukee. It is now 4:57˝, and Keillor is cranking up to do his first live broadcast in five weeks. He flaps about looking distracted...
...whim, from a cow's head, a rice bowl, a pair of rabbit ears, a water plantain, a whirlpool, a pumpkin, a canyon, or the cone-shaped head of the God of Longevity? The answer is kaware kabuto, which translates from the Japanese as "conspicuous helmets." These were the singular headgear worn into battle, or during the formal maneuvers preceding it, by Japanese clan leaders, before the accurate, quick-firing arms of the 19th century rendered the helmets, their wearers and the samurai ethic they stood for irrelevant...