Word: giving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mean to reproach you, or even to give you the impression that I think you'd care if I did. But I do believe that the writer of the story on Vidal and me turned in a remarkable performance. "When they fence on television or in type, bitchiness erodes their polish and learned discourse dissolves into tantrums." The man who wrote that sentence doesn't know the difference between a tantrum and a psalm. The writer then goes on to stick into my mouth an unpleasant sentence I never wrote (the author of that sentence is clearly designated...
...last year, Hodges had them standing tall: curfews were enforced, jackets and ties were worn on road trips. Then he settled down to the arduous business of teaching them the fundamentals of baseball. That herculean undertaking soon exacted its toll. Hodges suffered a heart attack and was ordered to give up the two packs of cigarettes a day he was smoking. But he pressed...
Mindful of the Mets' conspicuous weaknesses, Hodges stressed basics?pick-offs, cutoffs, double plays?until the players had them down pat. "In the old days," says St. Louis Manager Red Schoendienst, "you could always expect the Mets to give you a few runs by doing dumb things. Now they make the plays in the field like professionals. The Mets have grown up." Perhaps most significant, they have developed a large measure of team cooperation and team pride. Says Hodges: "My main goal was to change the notion that everything the Mets did was wrong. I wanted them to do things...
...quietly donated enormous sums to the institutions she loved, including $20 million (in conjunction with her brother) to Washington's National Gallery of Art last year and $3,000,000 to Lincoln Center in 1958. But, as a friend put it, "she had more money than anyone could give away sensibly." Last year FORTUNE estimated her personal worth at more than $500 million...
...that his stories enhanced Shaw too, offering witty cracks about himself, which he attributed to his contemporaries. One was supposedly by Oscar Wilde: "He has not an enemy in the world; and none of his friends like him." Another was attributed to his platonic lover, Mrs. Pat Campbell: "Give Shaw a beefsteak and no woman in London will be safe...