Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back is curved as a barrel stave, and his chin kisses his chest. He looks like Satan grown chubby, but his deepest pleasure is the most innocent in Christendom-playing the harpsichord. His sweet music is brilliant and astonishingly rich, but at the end of a concert he can melt with a mundane gesture the mystic spell he has taken an evening to build. "I'm Fernando Valenti," he will say, extending a moist, pudgy hand. "Thank you very much for listening...
...satiric That Was the Week That Was show, he once greeted a group of farmers with the words, "Good evening, peasants." But it is in his theater reviews for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express and more recently for the Daily Mail that his stiletto prose has dug deepest. Damned by producers as a "hired play assassin," he panned a musical by Playwright Wolf Mankowitz so savagely that Mankowitz led six girls into his office with an undersized coffin, saying: "This is the moment we have been waiting for-to send a midget coffin to a midget critic...
...good ear is only one of several talents which critics generally concede to O'Hara. Another is a good eye. Lionel Trilling has pointed out that "he knows, and persuades us to believe, that life's deepest intentions may be expressed by the angle at which a hat is worn...
Freshman track coach Ed Stowell calls this year's squad "the 'deepest' we've ever had." During the indoor season, the team had a 0-1 record, and narrowly missed a perfect season. The only defeat came in an early-season encounter with West Point. The Plebes had to come from behind in the final relay to win the meet...
Every year, when spring rains start the bluegrass sprouting, some high-strung U.S. race horse suddenly gets the attention usually reserved for movie stars and .400 hitters. Servants cater to his whims, columnists dog his hoofsteps, and genealogists start excavating the deepest roots of his family tree. He has a name-in 1961 it was Carry Back, last year it was Ridan-but to railbirds he is always known simply as Mr. Big: the favorite for the Kentucky Derby...