Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other. His crew of patches works together as if it had been training in vaudeville for years; maybe the mechanicals don't laugh hard enough at those gay old parochial Elizabethan jokes abous syphilis and sonnets, but their sense of timing and horseplay is just superb. Terry Malick's Bottom, who "gleeks on occasion" with wonderfully oafish conceit, and Philip Traci's absurdly studied Quince are the true leaders of this lot, and a grining David Riggs makes an enchanting Thisby in the interlude...
...inhabitants' pitiable hope or bitter humor. In Lima, one of the worst is wryly called Perla del Sol, meaning Pearl of the Sun. Defacing Rio's beautiful mountainsides are slums so flimsy that they periodically collapse in the rain and slide like an avalanche to the bottom...
...Mike Drummey lined out in bottom of the inning, Bartolet to center. Pitching to Morse, twisted his elbow, perhaps the thing that could have happened Princeton. Gerry Skey came in to walking Morse. He had better with Bernstein, fanning the big sacker, but Combs quickly out and singled to left, Bartolet...
...whole complexion of the game changed in the bottom of the second. Bernstein redeemed himself with a single, and Curly Combs worked Bruce Gunkle for a walk. A few baters latter stocky Dick Diehl rambled up to the plate and shocked the Middies with a 380 foot blast to dead centerfield. Diehl rumbled around the bases and tied the score...
Kazin's solemnity may be the result of his status in what is usually a two-level hierarchy of book reviewer (bottom) and book critic (top). Kazin is in the middle, looking wistfully upward. He charges that book reviewing is wretchedly done in the U.S. and deplores "the professional philis-tines" of the daily press. He complains of the New York Times's Orville Prescott, for instance, that it is no longer possible to tell what book Prescott is reviewing, since all his reviews sound as if he had written the books himself. The trouble with Kazin...