Word: hells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those houses, Dr. Seuss has journeyed on beyond Spock to a place of honor in nurseries all over the world. The feeling is reciprocated. Seuss, a.k.a. Theodor Geisel, is a failed novelist who now believes that "adults are obsolete children and the hell with them." By devoting 41 books to kids, Geisel has become a celebrity and a millionaire without losing a sense of wonder or fantasy. His rhythmic verse rivals Lewis Carroll's, and his freestyle drawing recalls the loony sketches of Edward Lear, perhaps be cause, like those masters of nonsense, he fathered no children except those...
FRANK TEPEDINO. You don't remember him? Aw c'mon! Tommy Tresh, hell, he even made Rookie of the Year. No? Duke Carmel, the next DiMaggio, or Bobby Murcer, the next Mantle? Horace "Hoss" Clarke, keystone man fielding like a keystone--ricochet off the chest and take it from there--him neither? But you remember Ralph Houk, kicking the dirt; it sticks in your mind, an emblem of an era of frustration...
...listen to the stories, about Ruth earing an 18-egg omlet, and the time he bellied up to Warren Harding before a game with the Senators and said "Hot as hell, ain't it, Prez?" Or how about the time Don "Perfect Game" Larsen totalled his car during spring training and Casey Stengel, when asked what Larsen was doing out at five in the morning, replied, "He went out to mail a letter." Or the time in 1977 when the Yanks almost traded Ron Guidry to the White Sox for once-and-future mediocrity Bucky Dent. Or the moron reporter...
...still have two more starts," Brown said. "Hell, if l finish those two games off well. I wouldn't regret one pitch I've thrown this year...
...Chitrabhanu, "God is an idea, an inspiration, an innermost quest, rather than a figure who judges and puts you in hell or heaven." God is the perfection within man, not an outside creator. Chitrabhanu describes mankind as the last stage of evolution, a stage at which it is possible--though unlikely--for man to attain perfection. "Man is in a refined stage but there is one more step, to perfection, to cosmic experience, to omega consciousness...