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...anticipated, Liquori passed Ryun and began a tortuous 660-yd. sprint for the finish. Rounding the final turn, Ryun pulled to within a step of Liquori. Down the stretch they came, Ryun with his head ticking rhythmically, Liquori with shoulders hunched and head back like a man fighting for breath. At the tape, Liquori was still a step ahead; he won in 3:54.6, the fastest mile he had ever run. Ryun was so close behind that officials clocked him in the same time. Afterward, Liquori said that the race proved only that "I was the fastest on this particular...
Wald, one of three Nobel Prize winners endorsing McGovern, called the Senator "a breath of fresh air." "All over the country college administrators are congratulating each other that this was a quiet year, when in reality it is not the quiet feeling that our problems are being attended to; it is the quiet of despair." he said. Wald added that "vot-ing doesn't matter unless one is offered a real choice. George McGovern offers a choice...
...first visit to the Reichian therapist, Bean was given a fiendish massage that searched out every sore spot in his body and tortured it. He went home black and blue, but breathing deeper than he had in years. Breath is energy, the therapist explained, and the first object of Reichian therapy is to build up a huge reserve of energy in the chest...
Redeemed of Sin. Unkinged, Richard is most kingly. The fire of majesty flashes from Chamberlain's brow as he rebukes the usurping Bolingbroke: "The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord." In his final scene, as piteously alone as he was once in clamorous pomp attended, bereft of crown and wife, Richard seems a saint redeemed...
...accumulate on their safari, drunks, outcasts and youth, signify all that is good and innocent. Such a thesis has formed the basis for many successful farces, The Madwoman of Chaillot, for example. But this lunacy in Manhattan has no imagination to propel its whimsy, no language to give it breath. Goldman is a dealer in used ideas ("The Bible has it wrong-Earth is Eden!" cries Justin). Scott continues to act with impatient power, but his messages all seem self-addressed. Woodward's real sweetness becomes ersatz and saccharine...