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Farmyard Logic. Just as Americans buy Christmas cards of New England churches on village greens they have never seen. Frost spoke to something ancestral (and perhaps vanishing) in the American spirit -the rugged self-reliance of the frontier. Frost seemed a throwback to an earlier time when philosophical and social questions could be handily submitted to farmyard logic. Just because of this, many latter-day critics who set the fashions regarded him slightingly-as a kind of James Whitcomb Riley with muscles. Intellectuals today tend to look on the age of anxiety as an urban affair, a unique...
...home run, Maury Wills is a refreshing throwback to an older, and in some ways more exciting time when ball games were won or lost by speed on the bases. In 1915 the late great Ty Cobb set the major league season record by stealing 96 bases for Detroit, and legend has it that "the Georgia Peach'' filed a knife-edge on his steel spikes to enforce his belief that "the base paths belong to the runner." The 29-year-old Wills has the same determined speed-if not the same temperament. With more than half...
...American is a crazy mixed-up dodderer of a musical. The first act is a throwback to the old-fashioned football college comedy where education consists of numskull sessions and coeducation of necking sessions. The second (and last) act plunks a few blank cartridges into Madison Avenue, the most oversimplified U.S. symbol of evil since George F. Babbitt. To compound the sense of the archaic, the hero tumbles onstage with a planeload of European fellow immigrants to raise an Ellis-Islandish plea of ''melt us" before audiences that would rather be caught naked than stewing in the common...
...Beatty will race this week in the A.A.U. indoor meet, and New Zealand's Peter Snell, whom he will tackle next June in the outdoor A.A.U. Both races should be classics : Beatty, Delany and Snell are a study in contrasts. Tense and ready, Ron Delany, 26, is a throwback to Don Gehrmann: undefeated in 34 straight indoor miles, he pays no attention to the clock, runs only fast enough to win, and has yet to demonstrate his full potential (his best indoor time: 4 min. 1.4 sec.). Sturdy and strong, Peter Snell, 23, is probably the finest natural runner...
...hours last week, the Dominican Republic's fragile new democracy disappeared beneath a military dictatorship that promised to be a throwback to the days of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In a bold coup, Armed Forces Secretary Pedro Ramon Rodriguez Echavarria, a 37-year-old Trujillo leftover, dismissed the civilian Council of State and proclaimed his own tame junta. In Miami, two exiled Trujillos, brothers of the assassinated dictator, started cashing their cached U.S. dollars into pesos for the trip home. But having once tasted freedom after 31 years of tyranny, the 3,000,000 Dominicans were...