Word: graybeards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rookie whose only appearance in a big league box score comes at the tag end of a lost season. A sonnet would be fitting commemoration for those human meteors who flash across the big league sky and then flame out, their promise unkept. My four graybeard survivors, of course, deserve nothing less than full-length novels, sprawling Victorian epics that carry them from apple-cheeked anticipation to adult acclaim to the agonies of aging abilities...
...thought is momentarily interrupted as a graybeard Kerouac beat screams past on a Harley, one of the 174,671 registered motorcycles in town. One of the things he no doubt likes best about the place is that it does not require you to wear a helmet. California recognizes a man's right to bare his brains at all times...
...19th century American engraving entitled The Old Wine God and the New, a graybeard Bacchus passes a vine-wreathed staff to a wide-eyed Western stripling. The artist's message: the age-old mysteries and delectations of the grape are flourishing in California soil. It must have evoked a guffaw or two from Victorian clubmen with noses deep in the real stuff from...