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Winning with ease. Levittown made the finals last week and faced the sobering task of playing a Fort Worth team that was the most solemn and mature club in the tournament. The prospect gave Levittown a bundle of laughs. During batting practice. Third Baseman Julie Kalkstein grabbed the microphone of the public-address system and rattled off a series of gags about the efforts of his buddies...
...himself, is unable to cash a check) and Clan jokes for Clan fans (Sinatra, disguised in blackface, asks Sammy Davis Jr.: "How do you get this stuff off?"). And for students of the ridiculous, there is a memorable doctor's-office line. Says ailing Richard Conte to a solemn-faced physician: "You can give it to me straight, doc. Is it big casino...
...that he hates everything. "His people" see him as the black knight of the implied positive-an idealist whose darkly critical moods really imply a yearning for perfection. "If I criticize somebody, it's only because I have higher hopes for the world," he says in a solemn moment, "something good to replace the bad." And, he might have added, because high hopes in a bad world are invariably good for a laugh...
...write well about death is never easy and always dangerous. Words tend to become solemn; compassion blends with sentimental pity; and the reader may easily find himself stirred by nothing stronger than acute discomfort. Tolstoy managed superbly in The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Flaubert in Madame Bovary. This first novel challenges neither of the masters but shows that modesty and sympathy can be enough to make a death seem both dignified and touching...
...copy boy in 1949, served as polo editor for a spell, and worked several other mundane beats before getting his present assignment seven years ago. Most newsmen consigned to the church department have a tendency to groan. Taft accepted his new post as a serious challenge and a solemn responsibility...