Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a little more to the book than that kind of thing. There are beautiful lyric passages of Texas flash-floods and sunsets. There are swell jabs at "artistic" San Francisco hangers-on, mindless but elegant Harvardians slumming in Hollywood, and New York publishing pariahs who know all the names of their authors, but none of the thoughts behind them. Most impressive is a long episode focussed on an economic South Texas uncle, who lives on a huge sheep ranch, and does nothing but eat, curse out his Mexican help, and jeep over to his wife on another ranch...
...laugh is a rebellion of notes across the lightning. She turns and runs, her legs pumping and pumping; kneading the wet air. The obscured faces, this odd race called man, flash past her, more swiftly than the tumult of raindrops...
...eternal summer of baseball memories, single images stand out: Babe Ruth, all massive shoulders and spindly legs, crouched somberly at the plate; Mel Ott's right leg flicking out as he stepped into a fastball; Ty Cobb's spikes flashing high as he slid home. In the case of Frank Frisch, the "Fordham Flash," the scenes are multiple-the headlong plunge toward second as he stretched a single into a double, the grace with which he consumed ground balls as an infielder, the temper tantrums that enthralled the crowds, baited the umpires and got him ejected from many...
...playing manager, he oversaw the antics of the rambunctious Cardinal Gas House Gang. Frisch continued to play until 1937. In one game that year, Fellow Cardinal Terry Moore nearly overtook him as both men sprinted around the bases. "When they start to climb up the back of the old Flash," he said, "I know it's time to quit...
Died. Frank (the "Fordham Flash") Frisch, 74, fiery second baseman for the New York Giants during the 1920s, later player-manager of the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House Gang (see SPORT...