Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense that it coheres in a vivid, living life of its own within the book, and true in serving as an affecting illusion of the way we wish things were. We all wish, decadents that we are, that we could imitate the languid laconic cynicism of Brett and Jake and Bill Gorton; we all wish, stout hearts that we think we are, that we could argue as honestly with ourselves as Robert Jordan or the Old Man of the Sea. Heming-way's answers may be shallow and short-sighted, blindly idealist; his is not the horrifying total vision...
...soon as the committee announced its aims, the money began rolling in. Cardinal Spellman gave $5,000. William D. Pawley, onetime ambassador to Peru and Brazil, contributed $25,000. Los Angeles' John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, a Prohibition-era hoodlum who got kidnaped by other hoodlums in 1933 and knows all about ransoms sent...
...Spurning pro football offers, Ole Miss's All-America Quarterback and Third Baseman Jake Gibbs signed with the New York Yankees for a $100,000-plus bonus. It was the largest bonus ever paid by the Yankees, topping the old record of $75,000 paid to Pitcher Ed Cereghino in 1951. Cereghino was a flop...
Good Gamble. To round out his team, Manager Scheffing has gambled on Rookies Jake Wood, 23, Steve Boros, 24, and Phil Regan, 24. All three bets have paid off. Regan, a fastballing righthander, has the lowest earned-run average among Tiger pitchers (2.12), has won four games and lost none so far this season. Second Baseman Wood is a slick fielder and a long-ball hitter who resembles the Chicago Cubs' Ernie Banks at the plate. Third...
...Mute Jake suffers little from cruelty, actually: boys chase him, loafers of no great intelligence use him as the butt for broad humorous gibes. But when his older brother runs out on the family and his widowed mother dies, the small community becomes their brother's keeper. They fail him, most of them, and after their effort to shuck him off onto the insane asylum collapses, the deeper tragedy follows. Author Williams is talking about the failure of human responsibility not through vindictiveness but through indifference. She does it with sureness, for she knows her villagers and she knows...