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...1950s, a boom time that is passing this man by. Too old to make the move to the majors, too much a country boy to seek an education and get ahead, too embittered to believe in the hope the civil rights movement is beginning to offer, Garbage Man Troy Maxson is vividly particular, but, as intended, he reflects the tragedy of a generation...
...enemies too distant to see, they lash out at their own kind -- a colleague in Ma Rainey, a son in Fences. These confrontations can seem like old-fashioned melodrama in comparison with the plotless minimalism now in vogue. But Wilson has the weight of history on his side. If Troy Maxson turns tyrant, betraying his wife with a younger woman and blasting his son's chances for an athletic scholarship to college, his demand for autocratic power is understandable, almost forgivable, in the context of his decades down South during the era of Jim Crow...
...Harvard locker room is usually a pleasant place. Not so the opposing locker room. After Harvard knocked off RPI, 4-1, in Troy, N.Y., I went to interview Engineer Coach Mike Addesa. I walked down a corridor toward the locker room. I was soon stopped by a heavy-set kid about 16 years...
...might be the pop-music equivalent of the excavation of ancient Troy, but the dig was just five miles from Broadway. In 1979 Henry Cohen, an executive for Warner Bros. Music, which owns publication rights to the songs, made a rough survey of the Secaucus material. "He didn't know its significance," Kimball recalls, "but he sent the list around. In 1982 he showed it to Donald Rose, a Gershwin scholar. Donald thought it was awesome and called me. In the first two boxes we found Gershwin's Pardon My English, which was presumed lost, and Cole Porter...
...which finished seventh in the league this year, took Harvard to the final bell two times this season. And in the second game--played before a bazooka blowing horde in Troy, N.Y.--Harvard goalie John Devin was forced to make 27 saves, a high number for a team known for its stingy defense...