Word: housmanian
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...York Yankees on the last day of the regular season on a dying-quail blooper. ("I can still see it with my eyes closed," Williams would remember, five decades later. "It's funny how you can remember something so painful so clearly.") Halberstam captures the full Housmanian drama as time catches up with them one by one. "Growing old in America, the country of the young, is never easy," Halberstam writes, but these four men, whose lives up to that point had prepared them only for permanent adolescence, do it gracefully, if reluctantly. Their lives are definitively American, and although...
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