Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CLOCKS OF COLUMBUS by CHARLES S. HOLMES 360 pages. Atheneum...
...squirreled away after the book's first sentence, and the 40th by page 14. But the book clonks with special resonance because it accepts as simple truth Thurber's cheerful misreminiscence (in The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze) that his grade school baseball team in Columbus had a 22-year-old centerfielder and several other athletes who had spent seven or eight years in the fourth grade...
Holmes does, however, usefully point out the strength of Thurber's Mid-westernism, and his ties with Columbus, his home town. He shows the writer fumbling for a point of view: writing with outrageous sentimentalism, for instance, about a tennis match between Helen Wills and Suzanne Lenglen, then finding a way to blend the sentiment and fantasy in the woolly reminiscence of The Night the Bed Fell...
...HOME: Columbus, Ohio...
Traveling in his comfortable jet, Michelle Ann III (named for his granddaughter), Agnew is campaigning at a rather stately pace, but nevertheless, he has hit 32 states and covered more than 35,000 miles. He sprinkles his stump speeches with light sallies. In Columbus, Ga., Agnew contended that "McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate." Firing at Ted Kennedy, Agnew replied in Idaho to Kennedy's criticism of the Administration's farm policy by terming him "that great son of the soil," and adding: "They learn a good deal about farming...