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...should baseball, with its sluggish metabolism and lack of crunch, retain its hold on the national imagination? The answer lies partly in its seasonal associations. No one is immune to the vernal equinox. The same jump of the blood occurs on ghetto streets and Little League diamonds, in bleachers and in front of the TV screen. Baseball implies an earthly benignity: clear skies, vacations and, above all, no school...
...always forgot what time of the day it was. In fact, what time of the day it might possibly be, whenever the summer warmth magically changed, into this special sort of rain. Oh; and if the sun shone down just this way, not sparkling in that fertile vernal brightness, but muted, and almost invisible. The sun singing this gentle and soft gray song, like drumsticks covered with cotton, or felt; beating very softly on a loosened skin...
...shivering band of Harvard sun-worshippers celebrated the vernal equinox with fertility rites yesterday...
Ostensibly, Torrents of Spring tells about the dramatic effects of the vernal equinox on the backwater town of Petrosky, Mich. Anderson's lapidary dialogue, his reverence for the little town, the railroad tracks, the "beanery" with its elderly waitress, even his anxious asides to the reader, are lampooned: "Spring was coming. Spring was in the air. (Author's note: This is the same day on which the story starts, back on page three...
Robert?, like Vernal Point, works with rather shop worn material; but at least it gets a lot of laughs out of it. The author also displays the greatest comic gift of all, knowing when to end his play before the audience starts to tire of the joke. The actors are all skillful, especially Caroline Denney as Edith Fromage and Roger Mead as Jane's Protean brother...