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Despite the example set for them by their higher-ups, Harvard's lower ranks were hard pressed to follow suit with victories. Princeton claimed wins at numbers seven, eight and nine. When Robie finally clinched his tiebreaker--"absolutely heroic," coach Dave Fish called the effort--only Brog's number six contest was still pending...
...President's 41-minute televised performance, in which he outlined the idea of a New Federalism, was vintage Reagan, as flawlessly paced and as forcefully persuasive as any of his campaign speeches-which is what the address basically was. With a showman's instinct, he evoked the heroic spirit of Leonard Skutnik, who dived into the Potomac last month to rescue a drowning plane crash victim (see box), and stirring speeches to Congress by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Only when he touched on foreign policy did he shift about nervously, as if on unsure terrain...
...first half of the book tells of how Wallenberg became involved in the effort to save the Hungarian Jews and contains eye-witness accounts of many of his heroic and ingenious efforts while in Budapest. Bierman plays up Wallenberg's heroism by contrasting it against the atrocities that were committed in Hungary at the time, especially by Eichmann, Wallenberg's arch-enemy and a man utterly dedicated to Hitler's Final Solution--the absolute extermination of Jews in Europe...
...mercuric feeling is heightened by Ric Waite's supple zooms, pans and tracking shots, and by the whining chords of Ry Cooder's music. As for Nicholson, he shows again that he can embody as much of the 20th century American male-sexy, psychotic, desperate, heroic-as any movie star today...
Because of their freight of dismay, White's doomsday sketches are rarely as effective as, his verse. He greets spring in New York ("Pigeon, sing Cuccu!") and rags an author about a fatuous book on farming with a review writ ten in rhymed couplets. Using mock heroic stanzas and plenty of relish he relates how a Chesapeake Bay snowstorm turned back a submarine specially equipped for polar exploration, captained by an explorer who had sold his story to a publisher before even setting out. An almost perfect example of occasional verse is "I Paint What I See." It pits...