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...they must knock off Harvard in what three weeks ago threatened to be a push-over but now has all the makings of a bone-shaking struggle. Still favored, the Tigers are expected to rely heavily on the passing talents of first-string tailback Greg Riley, whose best play is a soft ten-yarder over the middle to end Hank Large. The other tactic Princeton likes to employ is a classic singlewing reverse to wingback Dan Terpak--light, but fast and shifty. Between them, Terpak and Riley could give the Crimson a lot of trouble...
...civilian or group of civilians has the information necessary for the final decision. A staggering array of considerations confronts the President and his advisers. Not the least of course are three problems which do not admit of ready quantification for computer solution: leukemia, monstrous births, and bone cancer. Mr. Rockefeller does not mention these problems. Indeed, one has the feeling that Mr. Rockefeller does not think overmuch about them. Geneticists, after all, do not agree...
Daugherty: "George runs with his legs wide apart, almost at a gallop. That's what makes him so hard to bring down. If you get only one leg and the other's still moving, he jerks it away and he's gone." A bone-rattling blocker, Saimes enjoys banging shoulder pads with defensive ends who outweigh him by 25 lbs. or more. "I like to go at an end straight up," he says, "as though I were carrying the ball. When I hit him, I try to play my helmet right under his chin as hard...
Wozzeck, Good Soldier Schweik and Private Hargrove. Bone-tired from flying endless missions (the required number is always raised every time he becomes eligible for Stateside shipment by the evil Colonel Cathcart, who wants to be a general), Yossarian decides one day to go crazy. Doc Daneeka, the flight surgeon, agrees that he has to ground anyone who's crazy; all one has to do is ask. "And then you can ground him?'' Yossarian inquires. "No. Then I can't ground him." "You mean there's a catch?" "Sure there's a catch...
...rubble of farcical shocks and grisly surprises. Catch-22 is held together only by the inescapable fact that Joseph Heller is a superb describer of people and things. Take his portrait of a character called Hungry Joe: "A jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake. Hungry Joe ate voraciously, gnawed incessantly at the tips of his fingers, stammered, choked, itched, sweated, salivated and sprang from spot to spot fanatically with an intricate black camera with which...