Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situations, the last one excepted, is totally beyond the limits of the talent or imagination of George Plimpton, the world's consummate amateur. Sometimes, indeed, it is difficult to decide whether Plimpton is an amateur professional or a professional amateur, so intense is his desire to succeed in alien fields. He always loses but, in a larger sense, he always wins, proving that even in an age of constricting specialization a man can do almost anything he sets his mind to, if only for a moment. It is Plimpton's triumph that he has restored the word amateur...
...liked the pitch-and few of them liked his pitches. Ernie Banks, the reigning home run king of the National League at the time, let 22 go by. Exhausted, Plimpton heard an imaginary voice in his inner ear, speaking, for some unknown reason, in a semiliterate Southern accent totally alien to his own exalted New England speech. "My hand drifted up and touched my brow, finding it was as wet and cold as the belly of a trout," he wrote in Out of My League. "It was a disclosure which sent the voice spinning off in a cracker-Cassandra...
...Forbath, now posted to the New York bureau, set out to help report this week's cover story on John Fairchild, publisher of Women's Wear Daily and ardent promoter of the controversial midiskirt. "I'm rediscovering America," says Forbath. "I found the fashion world more alien to me than Africa, Southeast Asia or Eastern Europe...
...Last Things: the broken marriage, the career smashed by drink, the unexpected illness. But Snow long ago made a well-modulated commitment to optimism. Disaster is seldom allowed off limits; it is firmly kept in its place. Kindly but patronizing toward the young and the out-of-office - the alien - Snow finds considerable safety in measuring life as a man of the world. He has developed a kind of technique for talking away the unspeakable by those gruffly comforting monologues that pass in a Snow novel for introspection...
...devastatingly captured, if in caricature. Their bumptious puritanism is neatly depicted in the film's opening sequence in which the military brass are assembled for indoctrination. A rightist general compares the disease afflicting the grapes of Greece with the sickness assaulting the body politic: party factionalism, overfree speech, alien ideas. The military, he announces, must serve as the antibodies to repel this dread invasion. What's good for plants, in other words, is good for people...