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More fundamentally, the stock market is mirroring the business and financial community's deepening lack of confidence in Jimmy Carter's management of the economy. Says Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro: "I still think he is a man of great ability. But he let himself get diverted by political slogans rather than sticking to his knitting." Adds James M. Howell, chief economist for the First National Bank of Boston: "Businessmen thrive on certainty. The President has bitten off half a dozen big projects, and all of them generate a tremendous amount of uncertainty...
...Paul R. Shapiro '74, South House tutor of Astronomy and Physics, said yesterday, "The Pians have been swimming upstream on the South House improvement issue--they have spent a great deal of time negotiating for improvements and it's been difficult and time-consuming for them...
...there is a resiliency in the game of baseball which makes it unlikely that the worst of our fears will be realized, and it is the stuff of that toughness that Angell recognizes and celebrates. My favorite essay in the book concerns Max Lapides, Don Shapiro, and Bert Gordon, three middle-aged Jewish diehard fans whose friendship and happiness hinges on the fortunes of the Detroit Tigers. They know literally everything about their team since the '30s--not baseball trivia, as Don explains, because "you can't say 'baseball trivia'...it's a contradiction in terms. It's antithetical." Bert...
...baseball fan can linger nostalgically over these moments, precisely collected in Five Seasons, as if they were old family snapshots. Angell's love of the game is infectious; it is friends like him, Max Lapides, Don Shapiro, and Bert Gordon that will keep the sport safe from Howard Cosell, the Big "A", and all the other forces threatening to transform the subtle pleasures of baseball into just another entertainment. --Seth Kaplan
...dupe, that's what I am, thought Shapiro in despair. A dope. Therere was a hundred dollar bill on the plate also, which to his credit Shapiro did not pick up. It wasn't even my line, he told himself, Herman J. Mankiewicz said it. He32Tim Carlson, Mark Lennihan and P. Wayne Moore...