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Despite a lovely cameo turn by Burt Lancaster, Field of Dreams is the male weepie at its wussiest. There is poetry in baseball, sure, but it is not shaggy doggerel of the Joyce Kilmer stripe: "I think that I shall ne'er remark/ A cornfield green as Fenway Park." It comes in the concrete poetry of a Bill James statistical analysis, or in the sprung rhythm of a Roger Angell paragraph. Or in the flight of a ball from the pitcher's hand toward the catcher's glove, with a million delicious options at stake...
...sense of unity wasn't just ideological," says State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge). "It was not simply people of a leftist stripe. When armed forces took over a community, there was just as much outrage from the working class community as from the students...
...Crimson's last three games--all wins--the squad has shot 85-for-109 from the charity stripe, a whopping 78 percent. Harvard is 34-for-36 (94 percent) in the last four minutes and overtime periods of those three games...
James is 13-for-14 from the charity stripe in his last four games. He has nailed 72 percent of his shots...
...Crimson won on the strength of 90 percent shooting (27-for-30) from the charity stripe, which has been anything but charitable to the Crimson in recent games...