Word: fisherman
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...donnybrook with a bus and decided he was a menace at the wheel; he also can afford a chauffeur. Author T.H. White (The Sword in the Stone) used to barrel a Bentley around his minuscule Channel Island home of Alderney until the evening he dropped in-literally-on a fisherman friend; he drove the car right into F.F.'s parlor. Thereafter, he took to toddling...
...Ambition and success seem simply to have departed from the American novel. In the novels of Hemingway almost no work is good work-or, much the same thing, manly work-unless it confronts danger; one is permitted to be a bullfighter, a fisherman, a soldier, and of course a novelist, but all other work is trivial. In the work of a more rounded novelist, Willa Cather ... success is admired, but only success in the past: the new men that have arisen to seize it are grubby, narrow, without vision, unlike the heroic pioneer generation with its integrity, honor, heroism. William...
...untranslated La Torre Bianco (The White Tower), was chaste. Their love was consummated only in fiction, both in Across the River and, more figuratively, in The Old Man and the Sea (1952), where Ivancich recognizes herself as the elusive fish, chased and hooked by the masterful old fisherman...
...after Jan. 20? Not run for office again, he said, or go back to the peanut business; that would be "in appropriate for an ex-President." Instead, said Carter, he would work on his memoirs, write a book on the presidency, lecture, maybe teach, and "become a good fly fisherman...
...Harvard University directory lists John Patrick Fadden as a Physical Therapist in the Department of Athletics, and if you think that's the whole story, you probably think Ted Williams was born to be a fisherman. After nearly 60 years with Harvard athletics, Fadden could be a legend simply because of his longevity. That, however, is not the case...