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...rarely spoke. That's because I am a stutterer--even now, after a long career as an actor. I understand there are some wonderful techniques used today to solve a problem like mine, but in my day I just had Professor Crouch. Donald Crouch was a professor who had known Robert Frost and had taught at some of the same Midwestern universities. He retired to this small community in Brethren, Mich., where my high school was--and he couldn't stand it. So he dropped his plow--he was a farmer--and came down to our little agricultural high school...
Professor Crouch discovered I was writing poetry on the sly. One day he read one of my poems and said, "Jim, this poem is too good for you to have written. So to prove you wrote it, get up in front of the class and say it by heart, out loud." And I did. I wanted to prove that I wasn't a plagiarist...
Coiled to the left of home plate, he has scarcely stirred from the position he staked nearly 23 major league seasons, almost 4,192 hits, ago. The brush-cut hair that blew to bangs and billowed to bouffant has been tamed and dyed. The kneesprung crouch has lost barely a trace of temper. The burly body remains respectably taut, a gunnysack full of cantaloupes and cannonballs. The seamed and arid face, a slowly eroding riverbed, is as wide open as a gap-toothed grin. It is the map of an obstinate man with 737 doubles who still flings himself flat...
...squeeze, and they knew it was coming, so they pitched out,” Vance said. “I threw my bat out there, and the catcher came out of his crouch early...
Located in the basement of Holmes, the Pforzheimer Art Studio is a haven for those who delight in painting and sculpting. For key access to the space and more information on classes and supplies, contact tutors R. Craig Crouch (crouchri@gse.harvard.edu) and Valencia D. Thomas ’96 (vthomas1@partners.org...