Word: battler
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crockett is what Walsh would call a “Battler,” capital B, the best Harvard has. He held the Bears in check long enough to make a comeback possible, didn’t he? So, Walsh will leave him out there, risks be damned...
...He’s a battler up at the plate,” Walsh says. “He’s one of those guys who could be up there and be fooled on two pitches and we’re saying, ‘Oh, boy,’ and next thing you know he hits a line shot in the gap. It’s been an exciting switch, one that we really made after that day they did the little workout...
...could get a group of high school kids together, you’d just videotape [Birtwell] and show it to them. Then you could say ‘This is what a competitor is. This is what a battler...
...most vivid, idealistic, stubborn and thorny characters ever to appear in American culture. He was a battler, a moralist, an unstoppable advocate for the artists he loved, a connoisseur of the erotic and one of the greatest photographers who ever tripped a shutter. Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was the first American art dealer young modernism had. But to call him a dealer does him no justice. His influence was huge, and entirely for the good. Yet where was the great exhibition that traced his life's work? The one that showed in detail how "his" artists related...