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There have been periods recently when economic bulletins sounded like excerpts from an Ionesco notebook. Within a few days, the Wholesale Price Index drops a notch while consumer prices rise again. Unemployment hits a new high and the stock market rallies perversely. Assorted experts prescribe contradictory cures while Government officials shuffle a deck of options. How does a conscientious reporter or editor convey the meaning of it all? Not very well, in all too many cases...
...draft. In fact, according to TIME'S annual poll of pro scouts, several Brobdingnagian blockers and tacklers may well be picked ahead of Davis because this year's senior class is rich in linemen. If the scouts pooled their research, this is what their collective notebook would look like for an All-America team...
Another big plus for Harvard was the outstanding play of quarterback Milk Holt. The writer who suggested that Milt turn in his Joe Namath-like white shoes had better turn in his reporter's notebook. Milt was simply devastating, completing 16 of 24 passes, good for 234 yards and three TDs. Even more important, Holt threw no interceptions and fumbled only once, off a snap, but recovered it himself. The three TDs surpassed the number that Jim Stoeckel threw all last year (10) and put Milt into a tie on the Harvard all-time list with Ric Zimmerman...
...transplanted many passages straight from the diary into books, yet they remain most striking in their original context. She often wrote on the spur of the moment--in the Paris metro, on an Acapulco beach--wherever she could prop a notebook, with an unusual felicity for sifting and sorting incidents barely finished. Most of us don't venture beyond the word "nothing" in summing up our day, but Anais reports her contacts and conversations with dauntless agility. Like Miller, she has discovered that unabashed observers fascinate people because they've learned to wade daringly into ideas and only skim...
Since 8½, his work has been piecemeal and ruminative. The spiritual and artistic crisis at the core of 8½ was as much truth as drama, and the movies that followed it showed Fellini searching for some new form, like a diary (The Clowns, A Director's Notebook) or a primitive pageant (Satyricon). What began to emerge in Roma was a synthesis of direct reminiscence and fantasy, of dream and experience, of actuality and archetype. Roma was unsteady and uncertain, but Amarcord marks a triumphant consolidation. It represents some of the finest work Fellini has ever done-which...