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With Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, Montana and company, the Niners' scoring machine is sure to produce more of those brilliant pass plays and breath-taking runs. And with Lott leading the defense, enemy offenses shouldn't prove to be much of a menace...
...inescapable. It results partly from the pressing of technology against anatomy. The technosmooth circuitry is pushed bizarrely against the old Darwinian skull. The talker's being comes unfocused from the visual immediate room and refocuses -- through the ear! -- elsewhere. The Here communes with There through sudden activations of breath, vocal cords, jawbone, tongue, lips, eyes, emotions. Through the thing held to the ear, we hear voices from another world. We would be amazed by this spectacle if we were not so used...
...Hold Your Breath...
...their 19th century public as the last word on nature and its origins. Humboldt's ideas were what Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species overthrew. For Humboldt, like Linnaeus before him, saw the natural world as a pyramid of unity, "one great whole animated by the breath of life" -- cooperative within its prodigious variety, with more room for God than allowed by Darwin's harsher scheme of battle and chance variation. The artist must see like a scientist; the scientist, alert to the lessons of the sublime, like an artist...
...49ers were sometimes tense and tight. Seifert has more camaraderie with his players. "George is a player's coach," says tackle Harris Barton. "You never knew what Bill was thinking." Star quarterback Joe Montana, who occasionally found it hard to get along with Walsh, describes the change as a "breath of fresh air." Under Seifert's tutelage, the 49ers have compiled a league-leading 14-2 record, making him the winningest first-year head coach in N.F.L. history. They also lead the N.F.L. in total offense and points scored. On defense, the 49ers rank a strong fourth...