Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found that Cambridge was a nice place to visit but however to begin, to continue, or ever to consider coaching at. Goldston, a man who never fit into the black atmosphere, who never wanted to create, not tried, nor even recognized the "brother" kinship of blacks at Harvard, who bore charges of "Uncle Tom" with a brusque and abrasive stoicism and who had a series of alleged confrontations with prospective black athletes. Ralph Goldston and his similes are gone. What can you do about Ralph Goldston...
...cousin. Wells seduced her best friend. A second marriage too was quickly followed by numerous affairs. He stayed married, but was honest and open about his affairs. Secretaries, students, wide-eyed admirers filled his bed. He preferred brainy, emancipated females like Novelist Rebecca West, who during a long friendship bore him a son, the writer Anthony West...
...work with the swell of the music as mood or emotion, but reached constantly to the beat, as if to get as close to the instant as possible by testing every rhythmic tick, or catching it for a ride. The electronically calibrated music, used in three of the works, bore whiffs of the Maxwell house percolator. And the dancers, though graceful, looked as emotionless as the animated discs in the film announcements for Walter Reade theatres...
After the war, he helped manufacture an automobile that bore his name, the Rickenbacker; but the company failed in 1927, leaving him $250,000 in debt. He paid his bills and bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which he continued to run until 1945. His press parties at Indianapolis on the eve of each Memorial Day 500 were notorious; liquor flowed until dawn, and Captain Eddie-as he liked to be known -customarily called for order by hammering the table with a baseball...
...time, serious and solvent. The daydreams of alternate occupations are part of his openly boyish nature. He has just discovered mortality, for instance. Didn't know it was there before. "I'm like a kid with a strangely ugly new toy. I used to think writers who bore in on it were morbid. Now I think of certain people dying-my wife, my dog, my friends-and it's perfectly unbearable...