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...visitor from the Mailer entourage, The Class Drunk stood in the kitchen loudly quoting Invictus, the wife of a magazine editor complained that we had chuckled rather than fought when Mailer called us whores. Our guest soon abandoned oratory for a night of innocent reveling- including vigorous bouts of thumb-wrestling which did not, I fervently thank the powers, inspire his physical collapse...
...very encouraging camp even if Jimmy Fair, one of Harvard's three best Irish trainers, wasn't there. He had hurt his thumb in Ireland and delayed his return to Cambridge. The other trainers reportedly weren't too eager to have him go out into the countryside when he finally arrived...
...with excitement." Papa was still shaky from his accidents in Africa, however, and the meeting was canceled at the last moment. Perhaps it was just as well. A Hemingway-Mailer encounter might have been historic, but it would not necessarily have been happy, as Plimpton has reason to know. Thumb-wrestling over dinner at the Colony that very night, Hemingway, a fierce and not always fair competitor, drove his fingernail deep into George's palm, so deep that the wound left a scar for several years...
...business theory that you have to spend money to make money, the debt-ridden Democratic National Committee still $9,000,000 in hock from the 1968 campaign-is springing for $75,000 worth of television commercials, radio spots and newspaper ads to appeal for contributions. The rule of thumb is that $1 worth of advertising brings a return of $1.80 (though Senator George McGovern got $475,000 for his $70,000 investment in an anti-war TV appeal). The basic theme: "You don't have to wait until 1972 to vote against Richard Nixon." Things could...
From this mixture of Old World outlook and New World recruits arose the quality that most distinguishes the ABT today: a meaningful eclecticism. From the start, the great European classics were produced with a breezy American iconoclasm that seemed to thumb its nose at "ballet" in favor of "theatre." That spirit bubbled to a boil in April 1944, when Robbins performed in his own Fancy Free, the first American dance classic to achieve wide popularity. The company has never been dominated by a single choreographer-as is George Balanchine's New York City Ballet-or a single choreographic outlook...