Word: adieu
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...gift-giving's done; now, we bid you adieu...
When Larry bids his final adieu tonight, Boston will lose not only a great basketball player, but also a part of its personality...
...curtain has sadly closed on Ralph James's athletic career at Harvard. Adieu and thanks for everything, Ralph...
Even now she sometimes wears a ponytail, and age has only crispened that aquiline, no-nonsense visage. But in a game dominated by youth, Evert, 34, has become the matron saint. Entering this year's Open, which she said would be her adieu to the big time, she all but renounced any chance to win. She is being judged, and is judging herself, by a different standard: the grace of her departure. Like all great athletes, she has not so much succumbed to the ravages of time as allowed its passage to burnish her achievements into legend...
...confirm his stature, but still he is lucky to have such a thoughtful, intelligent chronicler. Boston had its own superstar in Ted Williams, and that brings up the inevitable comparison between Halberstam's work and John Updike's classic account of Williams' last game, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu." Nearly 30 years later, Updike's achievement seems as secure as Williams' 1941 batting mark of .406. He turns out to be the better writer, even the tougher reporter. But readers who want to savor a memoir of two outsize ball clubs and the rude dawn of modern baseball can turn...