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Fortunately, a toe-deep sampling of Molière is worth a skullful of most playwrights. Molière was the god of common sense. While tragedy moves from sanity toward madness, comedy moves from madness toward sanity. In his pride, the tragic hero overreaches human limits and dies. In his folly, the comic hero ludicrously pounds his head against those limits, is brought to his senses and lives. It is difficult to know which is the less comforting end-death or self-knowledge, and that is one reason why great tragedy and great comedy are so close...
...early in the third quarter, 79,544 fans in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium saw Lou ("The Toe") Groza boot a 43-yd. field goal, and suddenly the floodgates opened. Swinging wide to the left, Fullback Brown took a pitchout, cut back, and churned 46 yds. to the Baltimore 18. (Murmured one spectator: "Put a cape on him, and he's Superman.") Quarterback Ryan was a little nervous about calling the next play-a tricky "hook-post" pass to Flanker Gary Collins behind the goal posts. On the same play five times this season he had bounced the ball...
...Louisiana State: a 13-10 squeaker over Syracuse, in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, on a 28-yd. field goal by Doug Moreau-his 14th in eleven games, and the fifth time this season that his talented toe has provided L.S.U. with its margin of victory...
Hume, David, Toe Dangerous to Live...
...sculptor who prefers working in natural-finished wood. He painted the upper reaches of his attenuated Composite Mythology green to harmonize its grain. Hardly shocking when compared with Brancusi, the slender shape looks at once like ephemeral femurs knocking on a knee joint and a pinch-waisted dancer on toe point...