Word: celt
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...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...
...wealth of breezy wit. He is an incorrigible flirt-but friends who know him best compare him to St. Anthony and Martin Buber, calling him a kind of tormented saint. Says one of them, the painter Robert Motherwell: "Like myself and Jackson Pollock, he's a Celt. That partly explains his lyricism, his love of talk and drink -and his sense of being a minority...
...Boston is nothing if not a Celt's castle. Led by Center Bill Russell, Boston hopped into a 10-0 lead after the first four minutes, ran the score to 76-60 by the third quarter. Finally, with a ten-point lead and 25 sec. to go, out came the famous cigar. Programs, paper cups, hats and pillows filled the air; screaming fans mobbed the Boston bench. With all those distractions, the Celtics could be pardoned for letting the Lakers slip in a few baskets; then they froze the ball...
...Bannen, a haggard Celt who looks like Jason Robards on the morning after, plays the company clown: a come-day-go-day-God-send-payday type who always says what he thinks but seldom thinks before he says...