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...trip will also give McInnis a chance to alternate his outfielders in order to attain the best-hitting and tightest-fielding combination by the time the team returns to Cambridge. Tentative plans call for Steve Howe to open in left, Hal Moffie in center, and John Caulfield in right...
...Education should be a process of developing the individual's capacities rather than bringing him up to the standards of a particular school," he said. "Few, if any, artists attain success by studying basic principles...
Heads v. Walls. In Point of No Return, readers will find the most skillful elaboration of the typical Marquand novel theme. Charley Gray, the boy from Spruce Street, does well enough in life, but there are some things he cannot attain when he most wants to, some things he can never attain. He cannot close the gap between Spruce Street and aristocratic Johnson Street in his boyhood town of Clyde, Mass, (for which, perhaps, read Newburyport). Jessica Lovell lived on Johnson Street and was in love with Charley Gray, but it was clear from the start that snobbery wouldn...
...years ago England's waspish Critic Cyril Connolly attempted to figure out how to write a book that would attain the "immortality" of lasting for ten years-nine years longer, say, than the average novel. His own book on the subject, Enemies of Promise, has made the grade: first published in 1938, it has become a familiar, if not a favorite, of many English and U.S. intellectuals. It has now been reissued, and the story it tells is as interesting and topical as ever...
This term the group hopes to attain recognition as a full-fledged club...