Word: housman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Housman did not have Bruce Pearson in mind when he wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young." Pearson, a third-string catcher for the New York Mammoths, is impossible to cast in the heroic Grecian mode. He is a Georgia backwoodsman who can't get the hang of spitting his tobacco accurately, let alone of making his teammates respect or even like him very much. His only distinction is that he has been prematurely touched by mortality, in the form of Hodgkin's disease...
...Alex Housman steals cars. At 16, already in trouble because he has rifled high school gym lockers and lifted a wad of bills from the wallets there, he is off in a coppertone Buick Riviera -his 14th car-"joyriding" with a tense joylessness through his slushy Michigan factory town, watching for cops, indulging his quick-fade fantasies of ownership and manhood...