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...brings a remarkable personal tenacity. An amateur horticulturist, he decided to grow quality apples in Hawaii, where only mediocre ones have been able to withstand the heat. When the first tree died from the heat, Lowell ordered refrigerated coils and wrapped them around the second young apple tree. It died, too-but Lowell is still pondering other ways...
...second 1962 All-Star game: a sliding circus catch of George Altman's sinking liner that did wonders for Wagner's ego. "Al Kaline may be a better rightfielder than I am," Wagner now concedes expansively. "But he's a magician. Roger Maris is good too-but nothing special. I'm at least as good...
...Greeks had an unfailing eye for free-flowing beauty of line. Modern clothes designers have an anxious eye toward line too-but it is rarely free-flowing, and only beautiful if fashion says...
...relentless nagging. She insults his friends, drives the hired boy off the island, even neglects and abuses her own daughter, the one thing truly dear to her. In the end, the daughter dies, partly because of her mother's carelessness in a crisis. Shock and a miscarriage kill Vera too-but not before her bubble has burst, and she sees herself as she is and life as it must be lived...
Courbet did see the world with a childlike directness and delight. He painted it, according to one contemporary, "as simply as an apple tree bears apples." He didn't much like being called a realist-it was a term of opprobrium in some circles in those days, too-but he used to pound on the table and insist that painting was a physical language having nothing to do with history, romance or religion. "Show me an angel," he shouted, "and I will paint...