Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Riding powder-puff breezes. Racing Master Carleton Mitchell skippered his stubby, 39-ft. Finisterre with his familiar finesse, made the most of a long windward beat to win the 184-mile blue-water Miami-Nassau race for the second year...
Spillane's Hammer: He had the old familiar flair for violence and the leer for sex. And, true to fiction, Private Eye Mike Hammer was soon mixed up with a wild-eyed client and a wide-eyed doll. When the shooting was over, the client lay dead on the waterfront and the doll was off to the electric chair. "You burn me up," she murmured to Hammer as she was taken away. "No," Mike gently corrected, "the warden does that...
Three Years Running. As winter racing came alive with the big-stakes races that point the way north toward the Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont, Willie Hartack began booting his way into the winner's circle with familiar regularity. Though he got off to an atrocious 1958 start (27 races without a first at Tropical Park), at Hialeah he is back in top form. One afternoon last week, for example, he turned in a superlative performance on Mrs. Allie Ruben's Stephanotis, kept the Irish-bred bay out of traffic trouble in a 16-horse field...
Once out of the gate, Willie drives into his familiar dash for position and then takes the shortest road home. Says Jimmy Kilroe with professional admiration: "You almost never find Willie in what they call 'the married man's position,' that is, playing it safe on the outside of the pack so he can get home healthy for dinner. As a matter of fact, I think that not enough has been made of the frame of mind of the bachelor athlete. The bachelor is without the normal, settling tendencies. The other boys, the married ones, the homebodies, so to speak...
...reader even vaguely familiar with Eliot, a lot of the book is good fun-it might be titled Sweeney Among the Mockingbirds. Parodist Purcell has great sport with Eliot's comparison shopping between languages and religions, his footnote-prone scholarship, his frequent obscurity ("Fiffles the refulgence of the Pliocene"). Typical of the parody is one passage from a psuedo-Wasteland...