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...brutality and bumptiousness of football were dismissed as fit subjects here 90 years ago by Willa Cather, the beautiful writer from Red Cloud, as cherished an alumnus as Vince Ferragamo, the handsome quarterback from Los Angeles. She admired the game as "one of the few survivals of the heroic," and it pleased her that football "arouses only the most simple and normal emotions" and "offers no particular inducement to betting." She wrote: "Of course it is brutal. So is Homer brutal, and Tolstoi; that is, they all alike appeal to the crude savage instincts of men. We have not outgrown...
...sense of humor is helpful. "There's a strange duality," she says. "On the one hand, we're terribly proud of our Big Red, but we're also a little defensive about how big it is here. We wonder how we fit into the broader world. Willa Cather spoke of the 'clammy shiver of embarrassment' she felt in the presence of Easterners merely at the mention of the name Nebraska. We all partake in this tribal ritual of football, this coming together in the community, this need for a common identity...
BORN. To Meryl Streep, 34, elegant, luminous, Oscar-winning actress (Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice); and Donald Gummer, 36, sculptor; their second child, a daughter; in New York City. Name: Mary Willa. Weight...
...Professor's House, by Willa Cather...
Their exultation and private communion with the surrounding natural serenity rivals Willa Cather's My Antonia. Lydia Murphy Toothaker writes...