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Burke is trying to change the Ivy procedure of keeping running statistics, in which the yards lost by a runner are subtracted from his gains. A passing quarterback, therefore, particularly a drop back passer like Roberts, often ends up with a low net rushing average because of traps behind the...
All Men Are Vicious. "By infecting us with his evil," Sartre concludes complacently, "Genet delivers himself from it." This switch on Freudian analysis involves more than just turning his readers into a collective listening analyst. For Genet it means tarring them with the same brush as himself. His writings abound...
The so-called "Athens of America" seems impervious to the idea that big cities need the best schools in the country. At last count, 38% of Boston's 90,000 pupils attended schools more than half a century old, including one built in 1847. Many are ill-lit, malodorous...
The gentle, wooded hills framing the East German village of Mupperg are ideal for a Sunday stroll but disfigured by a fearsome scar-the 500-yd.-wide death strip sealing off East from West. Guarded by Grepos (Communist border police) with orders to shoot anything that moves, the no man...
Light is the most vexing problem in any museum. Sert & Co., after long thought, have built quarter-cylinder "traps" that concentrate light the way a radar antenna gathers in radio waves. The effect is to eliminate streaks and reflections. To thwart "artnaping," that ever-popular Riviera crime, alarms flash and...