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...with the likes of Gigli, Tito Scinpa, Bjoerling and Di Stefano on the records collected by his father, a baker and gifted amateur tenor. He recalls: "In my teens I used to go to Mario Lanza movies and then come home and imitate him in front of the mirror...
...beats jogging," insists Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, the tam-o'-shantered semanticist and college president turned junior Senator from California. That is why Hayakawa, 73, takes regular tap lessons, frequently practicing his steps before a mirror to make certain his buck-and-wings are smooth. Back home or in Washington, the Senator works out to the strains of such golden oldies as Sentimental Journey and A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly he is not. But, then, what do Fred and Gene know about marking up Senate bills or pursuing points of order...
...BRIEF: The season opener against Columbia is shaping up like a match of mirror images. Both Harvard and Columbia are looking for strong defensive performances while searching for the unknown from virtually brand-new offensive backfields. Also, both teams have untested kicking games...Junior Jim Keyte, who began the season as what looked like Harvard's No. 2 quarterback, has moved to ahalfback's position "for good, if it works out," Restic said...
Anna crawled over to the mirror and held her bloody feet up where she could...
...with quality. But in some ways she is as divided as the texts she writes about. "All of us children of the 20th century know, or should know," she writes, "that there are no absolutes in human affairs." Today's textbooks do, fairly accurately, reflect that knowledge and mirror the confused national mood. The collapse of American confidence reflected in the histories since the 1960s is the product of the pluralism of values that FitzGerald somewhat ironically espouses...