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...guilt of a poor first three quarters, Bradley enters the game with 45 seconds left, gets a steal, a rebound, an assist, six points, and has two free throws with one second left; the team is down only by one. He misses the first, then concentrates with tongue-tip precision on the tying point. "I take a deep breath, draw back my arm and in one quick motion I hurl the ball twenty feet over the backboard into the crowd. And I laugh and laugh and laugh...
...final minute, Boston had the ball and a one-point lead when Silas got his crucial tip-in. Austin Carr hit for the Cavaliers to cut the lead to one again, but John Havlicek, who came off the bench in the final five minutes, hit two free throws with 11 seconds remaining...
They are only the tip of the treasure trove. Behind all this, on shelf after shelf, is the record of the republic. Washington's letters from the field are here, along with dispatches from his trusted aide Benedict Arnold and letters in the handwriting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and John Hancock. "Whatever you touch is an original," marvels Assistant Archivist Albert Meisel. "That's the one! That's the piece of paper he signed...
...title alone is enough to tip off the Auchincloss devotee that a system of quid pro quo operates in this book just as much as in the author's sixteen earlier works. But in The Winthrop Covenant the contractual terms are explicit. Examining the lives of selected Winthrops through our American history, the novel, comprised of nine short stories, considers the pact each family member strikes with the world. The quo of the covenant drawn up by Auchincloss concerns the prerogatives bestowed on every Yankee WASP family by birthright: social position, wholesome looks, refined sensibility, fair intelligence and money...
...student porter gathers the needed implements. Mop bucket, mop. He is well aware of the danger involved in performing his function at this time of day. Playtex gloves. Some people are still sleeping. Sponge. They know him only as an early morning phantom who arrives with clinking pail on tip-toe. Broom. He recalls the morning he knocked, no answer, and entered, to find a couple obviously not expecting him, the girl screamed, the guy gurgled forth obscenities and the student porter dove into friendly porcelain territory locking the door behind him. Squeegee. And then there is the woman proctor...