Word: fans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yogi's coaching by taking him off their player roster, they put him on waivers for $1. Explained a Mets spokesman: "Naturally, no one would claim him-it's a gentleman's agreement among clubs." Trouble is, Maxine is no gentleman. She's a Yogi fan. So she whipped off a letter to the club saying: "Since it doesn't seem like anyone really wants him, I thought I would buy him." Yogi seemed to doubt that the deal would go through: "She must have me mixed up with that TV character Yogi Bear...
Awards and prizes take up ten lines of his 32-line listing in Who's Who, and now Poet, Playwright, Professor, Author, Classicist and Critic Thornton Wilder, 68, had another line to add: the first $5,000 National Book Committee prize for literature. No less a fan than Lady Bird Johnson made the presentation at the White House. And she, after refreshing her memory by rereading some of his works, declared him just to her taste. He avoids "a dreary reliance on four-letter words," said the First Lady, and his marching, singing prose makes "the commonplaces of living...
...waited in vain for Adam a thousand years. Or France's Arman, 37. He accumulates things like a surplus-parts dealer and freezes them in polyester. His transparent collages in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art's current assemblage show, contain heaps of real oil gauges, fan blades, or teapots. Very cool and a bit Dada, Arman's accumulations deliberately arouse no emotions in their viewers-unless possibly pique. But the Modern acquired one-a blend of matchboxes with pictures of cars and tiny toy vehicles...
...these objections will not keep you away from Sanjuro, if you are a Kurosawa fan. (If you aren't a Kurosawa fan, it's probably because you haven't seen any of his movies yet. If Sanjuro is your first, these objections can remind you that even better Kurosawa films exist.) Like all of Kurosawa's movies, Sanjuro is worth seeing and re-seeing...
...death of Wallace, all reasonable Scotsmen saw the death of Scotland. But they were wrong. They reckoned without a thoroughly unreasonable Scotsman named Robert the Bruce, a 31-year-old firebrand with energy to burn, military and political genius to fan the flames, and a hereditary claim to the throne of Scone that set the firths on fire. In a quarter-century of ferocious fighting he drove the English out of Scotland, broke his domestic enemies in a bloody civil war, founded a dynasty that endured for four centuries, and bequeathed to his countrymen their national epic...