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Staubach did that often enough during the past season to rank near the top of pro quarterbacks in completions: 231 of 413 passes (55.9%) for 3,190 yds. and 25 touchdowns. The man whose legs won him the Heisman Trophy in 1963 now lives, as do all N.F.L. quarterbacks, by his arm. His hands, gnarled and disfigured, reflect his trade: the index finger on his throwing hand still shows the marks of off-season surgery, and the little finger on the same hand zigs at right angles from one fracture, then zags back again from a second break...
...Camden, Me., has not yet fully accommodated Gordon Bok as one of its own, then Bok has assimilated the town, the state, the whole surf-sawed seacoast into his music. He has become the laureate of men who go down to the sea in ships, a saltwater mystic whose tales of treacherous tides and deadly storms tap into regional mythology and enlarge...
...shipyards, but his voyages now are for recreation only. The long trips he reserves for his imagination. "A song is a vessel you fill with your living," Bok once wrote, a definition full of fancy homespun that suits a man who calls himself "a traditional folk singer," but whose craft and dreams are directed toward something a little grander. Toward being a folk artist. As an anthropologist might...
Escapists will revel in the hero, whose power and wealth lead to freedom that is the stuff of fantasy, and fantasy-fiction: "He could be a welcome guest anywhere across the continent. He could host a dozen luncheons. He could summon a harem of women, fly to Haiti or Honolulu or Honduras at the flash of a credit card." West's people may converse in bromides ("Let me put it this way," one observes. "It's lonely at the top"), but they get them wrong often enough to sustain suspense: "Men get drunk in high places. Sometimes they...
...players. "I don't want you to panic," Jaccoux tells Bernstein as they prepare to ascend a pitch only slightly less steep than the side of the Empire State Building. Faced with such a command, Bernstein obeys. He draws an equally revealing picture of Equipment Designer Yvon Chouinard, whose 1972 catalogue quotes Einstein: "A perfection of means and confusion of aims seems to be our main problem...