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...with that guy?" he asked, meaning Glenn Glass, the Steeler defensive halfback. "He's playing me to go outside," answered Gifford. Aha, thought Tittle-and stored the information away for emergency use. The emergency came early in the third quarter: the Steelers had closed the gap to 16-10, and the Giants faced a third down and eight on their own 23-"third and long," as the pros say. All game long, Gifford had been running sideline-pass patterns; all game long, Glass had been on him like Scotch tape. Tittle ordered "wing zig-in"-a pass to Gifford...
...ELEPHANT, by Slawomir Mrozek. A lion refuses to eat Christians, a Polish matron keeps a live revolutionary caged in her living room, civil servants begin to fly like eagles over Warsaw in the fantasy world of a brilliant young Polish satirist who pokes fun most often at the howling gap between reality and Communist Party renderings...
...second period was crucial. Army drew a penalty, but still the Harvard line was unable to close the widening gap...
Slawomir Mrozek, author of these and scores of other weird vignettes, is a brilliant young Polish satirist. His brief mixtures of fey anecdote and topsyturvy fable have as their most persistent source of humor the howling gap that exists between the world as it is depicted by Communist rhetoricians and the world as it really...
...Tillich's thought lies in his attempt to compound mystical and oceanic notions, such as "Being" and "The Demoniac" with a rigid and absolute ontological system. The result is confusion, not clarity; metaphysical jargon, not insight. Morality and Beyond does not succeed. It does nothing to lessen the gap between morality, which belongs to man, and religion, which belongs...