Word: casey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still the best base runner in the business: by last week, he had stolen 44 bases in 71 games-14 games ahead of his pace three years ago, when he broke Ty Cobb's 47-year-old big-league record by stealing 104 bases. Sighs Mets Manager Casey Stengel: "Those Dodgers are a running club. They hit and run. They run and hit. They bunt. They steal. They take chances." And they...
Some folks say his worst accident was in 1943 when a taxi knocked him down and broke his leg. Others insist that it was the day in 1962 when he was made manager of the New York Mets. Now, baseball's noblest showman Casey Stengel, 74, has a fractured right wrist. It cracked when he fell on a concrete ramp just before his Mets played an exhibition game against the cadets at West Point. While the Mets were winning, 8-0, surgeons cased Case in plaster and a green sling. Then he returned home, waved his still-solid southpaw...
Young Cassidy, most of it derived from the late Sean O'Casey's multi-volume autobiography Mirror in My House, is a shrewd compromise between truth and the blander stuff that makes agreeable popular entertainment. The man himself was a crusty, anticlerical Communist, scarcely the image of a conventional movie hero, though he also happened to be one of the grandest playwrights of the 20th century. Cassidy, filmed in and around Dublin with a wholehearted feel for the gritty poetry of the slums where the author lived and worked at the time of the Troubles, cuts...
Cassidy's prize in one melee is a trollop named Daisy Battles, played by tawny, toothsome Julie Christie, who has a decorative role and makes the most of it. But the girl who steals out of O'Casey's pages into Cassidy's heart -and gives the whole film a persistent, throbbing pulsebeat-is Nora (Maggie Smith), the shy, strong-minded colleen who finally takes leave of him because "I need a small, simple life-without your terrible dreams and your terrible anger." Actress Smith makes even reticence seem a powerful emotion...
...John Casey, whose story, "A Taste of Cherry," begins "I cannot describe to you very well the boarding school," deserves a nod of agreement and a sigh. Lee Grove, a young man distressed by what old men think, rates a prize for non-sequiturs and bad puns. Kevin Lewis, who has written two poems about vapid lives, could be accused of writing method poetry...