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...given each one an expanded role in the offense. Chuck Marshall has snared several big receptions, Bill McGlone brought the Stadium to its collective feet with a pair of dazzling catches against William & Mary, and Linus O'Donnell (after he got over the mumps) has developed into a superb blocker...
...getting better each week, and so are the Lions. But if the armies of France and Fiji were to improve at the same rate, you'd bet on the French wouldn't you? YALE 23, PRINCETON 20: After their loss to Cornell last week, the Elis are reeling. Their superb nose guard Kevin Czinger is sick with the flu and probably won't play. But Carm Cozza's teams have too much class to fold. Look for halfback Rich Diana to come up with a big performance after an off-day last Saturday...
...miscues and misfortune that these books portray, they nonetheless inspire elation, the thrill of watching craftsmen work with words. Roth and Elkin are both superb monologists, comic sprinters, which is one reason why excerpts from their longer works still seem satisfyingly self-contained. Roth describes himself as a child with "one foot in col lege, the other in the Catskills," and the Borscht Belt routine is what his first-person narrators constantly imitate, no matter how much they want to sound like Chekhov or Henry James. Elkin's characters are prone to bursts of speechmaking, and their creator...
...Harvard came back early in the fourth quarter. A superb Steve Flach punt was downed at the seven, and the Harvard defense forced a punt out of the Bruin endzone...
...Welty has always been a superb comic writer. Her well-known early story, Why I Live at the P.O., is a hilarious portrait of sheer cussedness; the narrator, postmistress at "the next to smallest P.O. in the entire state of Mississippi," makes herself so obnoxious to her bizarre kinspeople that she stalks out in a huff and sets up housekeeping at her place of business. The town is then split into those who will patronize the post office and those who refuse to use the mail at all, rather than cross the family...