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...notorious Marvin "Bad News" Barnes taking off on another binge, the team trainer enduring the petty humiliations. Halberstam traveled the entire season with the Blazers and it shows. He knows the patterns of big league life--the hotels, the planes, the soap operas (both televised and intramural)--and the reader's appreciation of the game is richer for it. The basketball story, plus the profiles and the assorted other history, make The Breaks of the Game a quick and zesty read for even a casual...
Less often quoted was Giamatti's articulate defense of "winning." Which comes about halfway through his remarks. And the reader of his newly published collection of essays, which contains his "Yale and Athletics" speech and 12 other pieces of the last five years, is left to wonder. Is this the president of Yale pandering to the alumni, pretending that he, too, worships winning--before forwarding his somewhat radical proposals? Or does he really believe that winning has "a discrete purity...
...written book. Winning and bit-time athletics have apparently gone hand-in-hand, but Giamatti is capable of drawing a sharp distinction between the two, and pointing out a hidden incompatibility. Yet perhaps the primary weakness--as well as the primary strength--of this collection is the difficulty the reader shares with Giamatti of reconciling the conflicting notions he posits...
...charmed life. In his stories he created an idyllic world, one of wealth and leisure, where no problem was so great that it could not be solved by some quick thinking and a touch of light-hearted deception. His books were magic elixers to the troubled souls of his readers. Like a few stiff drinks, but without the side-effects, a P.G. Wodehouse story could make even the most distressed reader forget about his problems for a while. And his public paid him back in kind: No sooner would one of his books hit the stands than it would become...
...prime recreation. For the most part, they picture themselves as moderately attractive. One male describes himself as "better than Redford," but another confesses he is "devastatingly average." Next to physical appearance, the most frequently mentioned attraction is financial security. In a recent letter to the editor, one reader complained of the emphasis on cosmetics and financial success. "People living in the back country of Idaho don't place a whole lot of stock in 'handsome' and 'pretty,' " he wrote. "I sure wish 'honest' would appear more often...