Word: finch
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Plimpton exhibited his Lampoon-cultivated humor when, as an April Fools’ joke in 1985, he wrote an article for Sports Illustrated profiling Sidd Finch, a fictitious Harvard dropout who learned to throw a 168-mile-per-hour fastball while studying yoga at a Tibetan monastery...
Plimpton wrote that Finch had reported to the New York Mets’ spring training camp, thrilling gullible fans of the team...
...Africa before he finally published his first novel, Mating, in 1991. It promptly won the U.S. National Book Award. Rush then resumed his silence. Now, 12 years later, we have the remarkable Mortals, which gives us the late-blooming Rush as challenging and surprising and uncompromising as ever. Ray Finch, our hero, is an American who teaches at a private school in Botswana. At 48 he is a contented man, even a little self-satisfied, but who could blame him? He's a literary scholar, in a modest way, and ardently married to Iris, who is sexy, beautiful, 10 years...
...counseled ethnic tolerance: of Jews, in Gentleman's Agreement, and blacks, in Mockingbird. As a crusading attorney who is also a gentle single dad to his two young kids, Peck made rectitude appear robust. That sanctity had staying power: this month the American Film Institute chose Atticus Finch as the top hero in U.S. movie history...
...That. He was laden with official honors: Lyndon Johnson gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom; Richard Nixon put him on his Enemies List. Peck received perhaps his sweetest laurel last week when the reclusive Lee, on hearing of his death, said, "Gregory Peck was a beautiful man. Atticus Finch gave him the opportunity to play himself...