Word: charleye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweeney was the offensive hero against Tufts, scoring the winning goal with 7:00 left in the game. He may put in time today at inside or center forward. Several of the varsity's injured legions--which include Sam Rodd, Chris Martin, John Jeppson, Charley David, and Bruce Johnstone--should be ready to go this afternoon...
...Martin, the sensation of the first week of training who would have started at left wing today, is out, as are insides Bruce Johnstone and Dick McIntosh, wing Sam Rodd, out with a pulled thigh muscle, as are inside Dick McIntosh, wing Sam Rodd, and fullbacks John Jeppson and Charley David...
...Kazin, "not for freedom from convention, as George Apley did, but for conventions-standards of belief and behavior-that will allow him to function as a human being in a world where beliefs are shared.1' He is troubled by the materialist itch of American life, whether he is Charley Gray, the nice poor boy who wants to be a nice rich man but still plays by the rules, or Willis Wayde, who has torn up the rules and claws his way to uneasy success-the only Marquand hero the author seems to have loathed...
...less obsessed way, the social preoccupation of John O'Hara, which once inspired Hemingway to groan: "Lord, I wish someone would start a fund to send O'Hara to Yale." Marquand, at least, got to Harvard, the son of an old Newburyport family which, like Charley Gray's, had lost its money and no longer lived on the best street. But he felt ill at ease because he had not prepped at Exeter or St. Mark...
...undernourished children are all part of the day's trouble at Trinity. Alcoholics are everywhere-even on the church staff. Joe O'Brien, the doorman, is a retired bartender who knows what it is to lose a weekend in the bottom of a glass. So do Charley Hirst, 51, Father Kern's secretary, and onetime Engineer John McCarthy, who runs the employment agency. Father Kern is an expert at straightening out "whisky priests...