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...mind wandering at the plate."According to Rose, "That's not age, that's being in last place. I don't know if I could play now for a team that wasn't in contention." Yastrzemski says, "It's easy for your mind to wan der, to come back to the dugout from the plate and think, 'Why did I swing at that pitch?' More than the physical part, the mental part kept me working out in the offseason. I wanted to stay with it mentally so that if it turned...
...public appearance in nine days, the Soviet President stood for 1 ½ hours on the reviewing stand atop the Lenin mausoleum on Red Square to watch the annual May Day parade. Wearing a gray overcoat and fedora as protection against a drizzling rain, the 75-year-old leader looked wan and weary as he waved weakly at the tens of thousands of Soviet citizens who marched by carrying banners, artificial flowers, red flags and posters bearing his portrait. After the nationally televised ceremonies, some Western correspondents glimpsed Brezhnev painfully making his way down the steps from the reviewing area, supported...
...made his homages to the landscape of symbols. The most spectacular paysage moralisé in his work was the motif for two versions of The Jewish Cemetery, circa 1655. This gloomy landscape pullulates with symbols: the broken tree over the dark brook, suggesting a bridge across the Styx; the wan rainbow; the ruins, the air of desolation, transience and decay; and the crystalline, stony geometry of the tombs. Their purity interested Goethe, who would later design an abstract memorial for himself. "Even in their ruined state," he declared, Ruisdael's monuments "point to a past beyond the past; they...
...Forward--Wan Poliziani, Yale...
...collected essays place keys to Tuchman's skill as on or best in the context of her intellectual growth. Tracing her own inspiration to one professor of history and two of literature, Tuchman recalls that their common characteristic wan an unbounded, almost torrential zeal for knowledge. (Of the historian, a classicist and anti-romantic, she writes: "His contempt for zeal was so zealous, so vigorous and learned, pouring out in a great organ fugue of erudition, that it amounted to enthusiasm in the end.") Passionate fervor, Tuchman observes, is one quality indispensable to a good historian; the other is ability...