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...book also renders a service to minor league ballplayers, raising them to something near heroic stature. We're all used to reading about the Yastrzemskis and Jacksons and the other superstars who have the fat salaries, fancy apartments, and women in every city. But we seldom hear about the 95 per cent of ballplayers who never get to the majors, about the plight of the minor-league ballplayer who lives on $600 per month...
...there's something more to this book than plain old American voyeurism, although that's a large part of its attraction. The Kinsey Report it's not but it isn't just People magazine, either. Losing one's virginity is seldom either a pleasurable experience or a significant demarcation line, but it usually is one of the most important events in a person's life. The people who talk about themselves--and they are, in most cases, intrinsically pretty interesting--but also about relations between the sexes in general. Even making allowances for the unrepresentative nature of the sample...
GIOVANNI probed the relationships between men and women in a book of prose pieces called Gemini, too. This writer's thoughts seldom take to much studied analysis--whatever form she arranges them in--but her prose tends to flaunt a certain intrigue that the poems fall shy of. Why, she groans, don't black men assert any control over white men? They're being dogged by death anyway, so they can't be anxious about dying. She figures they don't want white men mad at them. White women seek equality first and then follow the example of black...
Under Shanker's leadership since 1964, the U.F.T. has shown that teachers could be transformed from genteel professionals who seldom raise their voices into members of an aggressive union that rarely lowers its voice...
...reported cases (far below the true total) in 1969, the number of rubella cases dropped to 12,000 last year, and only 45 infants were born with resulting deformities. Smallpox, dreaded and widespread as recently as 1930, is virtually nonexistent today; as a result, smallpox inoculations, once routine, are seldom given...