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...film showed at the very least that he was a gifted mimic of a great young master. Dassin's 20-min. version of The Tell-Tale Heart, released in late Oct. 1941, was possibly the very first movie to be influenced by Citizen Kane (which came out less than six months before). This short film, with Joseph Schildkraut as the guilt-stricken killer, is positively a-swill in Wellesian tropes: the crouching camera, the chiaroscuro lighting, the mood-deepening use of silences and sound effects. But MGM wasn't a studio that encouraged innovation or eccentricity, and Dassin's seven...
...first game, a 2-0 loss, the Crimson’s lack of production at the plate robbed senior pitcher Brad Unger of a win. The righty threw an impressive seven-inning complete game, allowing only two runs on five hits and three walks while striking out six, but Harvard was unable to muster any offensive output as Lions pitcher Joe Scarlata allowed only two hits in his shutout effort...
...Baseball furthermore requires patience. Unlike most sports, in baseball there are no fixed time parameters and therefore no temporal obstacles for losing teams staging a comeback at the threshold of defeat. The season spans six months, with over 160 contests for each team, a time over which lengthy winning streaks can be gradually erased by tepid performance midsummer...
...Kids check their blood sugar six times during the day or night,” she added. “They can’t go to camp. Their parents can’t sleep at night...
...past six months, the Harvard administration has made itself perfectly clear: “college” is cancelled. The combination of underage binge drinking, uncontrolled hazing, and unhindered irresponsibility that has produced generations of great Americans has met its untimely end, at the hands of a pack of lawyerly dweebs...