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Because he writes for The New Yorker--a weekly magazine with a most selective and elite readership--Angell's style is more poetic, more intellectual. In "barroom Comparative Literature seminars," the professors of baseball spend countless hours discussing their relics. The hard-fought 1980s Astros-Phillies championship series included four extra innings games which were "Lovre pieces" highlighted by the seesaw Game Four--"baseball of the High Baroque, surely." A leading object de studie is Ron Guidry, who "is not a thrower...his every pitch, including the slider, contributes to an eloquent major theme built around the keynote, which...
Twenty years a baseball writer for The New Yorker, Angell first focused on the memorable pitching, hitting and fielding that took place in the park. These joyous narratives--compiled in two previous books. The Summer Game and Five Seasons--were darkened only by the anguish of a slumping player or a pennant-hungry...
...laziness. Within a year, his short story Expelled appeared in the New Republic. He spent some time in Boston with his older brother Fred, then took a cheap room in Manhattan and pounded out short stories to pay the rent. At 22, he sold a piece to The New Yorker, and he and the magazine grew up together...
...Bonnie, Herrin had no close friends at Yale. His academic record was dismal. Yet former classmates, faculty members and, particularly, the university's Roman Catholic community rallied immediately to his side with a $30,000 defense fund and all the influence they could bring to bear. New Yorker Jack : Litman, a stellar attorney, was hired to ' provide a defense. His case ultimately de| pended on Psychiatrist John Train, another brilliant performer on the criminal circuit, who argued that Herrin was suffering from both severe mental disease that impaired his ability to realize what le was doing. (Herrin testified...
Radcliffe's lot a chapter, established in 1914, selected 51 members of the Class of 1982 as new inductees and tapped for honorary memberships. Pauline Kael, film critic for New Yorker Magazine, Aida Press '48 the editor of Radcliffe Quarterly. Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies and of Music, and Dtana Trilling, author of Mrs. Harris...