Word: celt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hank Finkel, a Celt teammate, says "I don't think you could have picked a better man. He knows how to handle kids and he really has an art of communication with ball players...
...think it's almost pure-dee simple finally. I think he was just another mad run-of-the-mill old celt, like me, like you I suppose looking for a place, another deserted wood to stone himself off from them for awhile. You'll find out about them all right, you won't be able to help yourself, but when you do, just remember--just go about your business and pretend they was only passing through...
...self-conscious Celt-the family liked to claim its line from a Welsh prince-Meredith was heir to two years of a German education. He complicated his life-style even more by affecting a Regency appearance and manner. A halfhearted stab at law, a simultaneous enthusiasm for poetry and boxing-nothing in Meredith's early life seemed to go together. By the time he was ready to write his novels, Pritchett implies, he had become a one-man, multi-role social comedy in himself. The ordeal of self-discovery-sorting it all out-became the theme of his books...