Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couldn't help thinking back to a conversation of the previous August with a little guy named Ernie Oravetz. He had grown up in Johnstown, Pa., a stubby (5-4, 150) lefthanded hitter who, in spite of his size, was the best ballplayer in a fast amateur league there at the age of 16. When the scouts turned their heads on him, Ernie bummed a ride to Florida and fought for himself. He led the first three leagues he played in, in hitting, but he never quite made it with the Washington Senators. So he had settled in the high...
Perhaps it's unfortunate that Waletzky chose social work for his heroine's commitment. This setting enables us to view a nice variety of amateur actors--wrinkled faces against decaying plaster--but leads to a misplaced emphasis. We spend almost the first half of the film watching the situation (rent-strike) rather than the girl who is the film's subject...
What keeps the art market boiling is the knowledge that Renoir's Le Pont des Arts cost only $19,500 when its previous owner, Manhattan Collector Mrs. W. Clifford Klenk, bought it in 1941. The inevitable result has been to pull into the bull market a host of amateur speculators. To satisfy them, dealers are hustling out the "cats and dogs," in Wall Street parlance: stocks with a glamorous look but shaky prospects...
Ultimately, a spectator at the trial announces that Goldman is really a Jew [the telltale SS tattoo in his armpit urns out to be a self-inflicted cigar burn). This denouement makes the playwright seem like a bumbling amateur and the Israeli secret agents as incredibly inept. Goldman, it appears, was a kind of Christ-surrogate who wanted to be martyred so that his people might feel that some fitting atonement had been made for the monstrous wrongs done them. But Shaw's conception of martyrdom makes it seem less a matter of conscience that an attention-getting device...
...politics were far from the minds of yesterday's crowd, which broke up slowly as the amateur bagpipers and drummers--who during the week come down to earth to be truckdrivers and lawyers--made their way to the Quincy House roof to ward off any lingering banshees...