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42nd
Street
Albee speaks of
“swimming in polluted water with sharks,” and when was it any different? A film
with resonances down to Altman’s The Company.
Knute
Rockne All American
Nowadays all sport
is business, and America sends pros to the Olympics. “The past is a foreign
country,” where long ago football had to be invented in its various aspects.
That’s just the sporting side of it, which if it is meaningful has several
connotations for academic life in that, properly speaking, there is a certain
amount of study and preparation, and a certain amount of creative work as well.
Action
in the North Atlantic
They are
involuntary heroes whose boat is sunk, and they rise again to outfit an
antipathetic ally.
The
Sullivans
The principal
reason is a historical one, but these are Rockne’s Four Horsemen, or rather
Five, in their offensive, spiritual materialization.