Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back in the line-up at 45. The first Sunday of the season, old Ted Lyons expects to crank up his ancient arm and fire his pet pitch at the St. Louis Browns. For him, and for many another big leaguer, the last three years didn't happen...
...Author. Tall, blue-eyed Eudora Welty, a spinster of 37, has never lived in the Delta country ("It just seemed . . . a good place for the events to happen."). Daughter of an insurance company executive, she was born, bred, and still lives in Jackson, Miss., where she quietly passes her time writing, painting and photographing. She also likes flowers and "soft music, classical music, as well as dance music-and triumphant bursts of music." She is a member of the Junior League...
...Great Liberator. Jorge promised more: "I have another very big surprise for the boys in the United States . . . it will happen very soon." It did. Next day the Pasquels, who own two of La Liga Mexicana's eight teams and control the others, rustled off with second-baseman George Hausmann and two other New York Giants. (Hausmann's wife, who had wondered where they would live in overcrowded Manhattan, was encouraged by Pasquel's promise of housing in Mexico.) Next day Pasquel proudly announced that he had signed the Brooklyn Dodgers' No. 1 catcher, Mickey Owen...
...disciples to shun society. Because nobody dares utter the complete truth, which is too cruel for people to withstand, "every conversation is a lie." Excitement too must be avoided ("enthusiasm is our enemy"). The biggest disillusionment of all is love. Says Teppe : "Love should be inevitable, preordained; it should happen to elective affinities, two people meant for each other." Alas, says he, "that is not possible. Meetings are always accidental. Any individual might meet any of a dozen individuals of the opposite sex and fall in love. Emotion is false. It is not absolute. A situation rather than transcendent necessity...
Auden noted that many students today appear to take an especially gloomy attitude towards their future. "Look forward to the next six hours," he advised, "rather than the next ten years. In looking ten years ahead the worst possible things are always about to happen...