Word: hole
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...never even "there" until it is found and its depths are plumbed and proved. Mountaineering has its classic literature−Annapurna, The White Tower, etc.−but caves, mysterious, magnificent and challenging as mountains, still await their authors. Most Americans best know a cave as the sort of Stygian hole where Mark Twain marooned Becky Thatcher and Tom Sawyer. The society of the cave-wise in the U.S. contains a handful of scientists and spelunkers, most of them active in the National Speleological Society, whose 1,200-odd members are organized in 40 U.S. "Grottoes...
Superficially, says Wilson, the Outsider is just a social misfit, a "hole-in-corner man." In novels he sits in his room by the hour, spends days observing other men's lives. In real life an Outsider type like Van Gogh lived 29 of his 36 years before he knew himself to be a painter. In a sense, the Outsider is a man waiting for his authentic vocation. But why does he turn in disgust from the "practical" house, wife-and children-minded world of his "bourgeois" (no Marxist connotations) fellow man? For Wilson, Nijinsky summed...
...Rochester's Oak Hill Country Club last week for the 56th National Open, there was a hot sun in the sky and nerve-twanging tension in the air. Before the first round was done, scurrying officials had to flip four times through their complex rule books (sample heading: Hole Made by Burrowing Animal) to settle rhubarbs, including one in favor of Henry Cotton, oldtime monarch of British golf, who was accused of not owning up to an extra stroke. "I said I didn't have a go at it," sniffed Henry, "and those other two chaps [playing companions...
Halfway through the third round, his putts rolling string-straight, cool Gary took the lead by a single stroke. Then, shooting cautious, slow-motion golf, the man who learned the game at the hide-and-seek age of seven turned on the pressure, played the last 27 holes in even par. On the last hole he was off to the left of the green behind a sand trap after his second shot. Middlecoff puffed on a cigarette for a moment, then chipped deftly. The ball rolled dead two feet from the pin. He holed out with...
...Hole Truth. In Long Beach, Calif., arrested after he made off with a truckload of doughnuts, Sailor Robert Horn-stead, 22, told cops: "I don't know why I did it; I don't even like doughnuts...