Word: finley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing is sure, the "Billy market" is out there. Says Oakland Athletics Boss Charlie Finley: "I see where Bill Veeck [Chicago White Sox owner] is trying to get President Carter to throw out the first ball on opening day. Well, I'm trying to get Billy Carter. He's my kind of guy." Bantam Books rushed into print a collection of Billy's tell-it-like-it-is shots from the hip. An embarrassingly thin volume, Redneck Power: The Wit and Wisdom of Billy Carter sells for $1.50, yet went through its first printing...
...Finley's rambling hour-long speech, part of the Writing Center lecture series, focused on the reasons a writer sits down to write something...
...Finley said, "One needs real modesty in writing--write not to overfill the already filled Harvard catalogue but because the world is interesting. Write...
...Finley said he had once thought he was writing for some higher goal, but wondered aloud whether he had been "writing all these years just to be speaking in Harvard Hall today...
...Finley also talked about his experiences with Johnny Carson when Carson was here at Harvard recently to accept his Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award. Finley said he had talked to Carson about knowledge, the world and the individual's place in it, and added, "He seemed to understand it all quite well...