Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dodgers fell apart. Having exhausted his slim staff of reliable starting pitchers, Manager Burt Shotton called on Don Newcombe again after only two days' rest; the Yanks bombarded him and Reliever Joe Hatten to win 6 to 4. On Sunday, even virus-ridden Joe DiMaggio came to life with his first home run-and second hit-of the Series. The Yankees slugged their way through six Dodger pitchers to a 10-to-6 victory and their twelfth World Series crown. Said Yankee Manager Casey Stengel: "We won from the bullpen. The difference in the teams was the relief pitchers...
...request of his old friend (and NBC's general music director) Samuel Chotzinoff, he had cabled: "Accept Ridgefield. Make nice program." Last week, for the second time in two years, the maestro made a "nice program" for his favorite little U.S. town, and had the time of his life doing...
Getaway Money. As Biographer Taylor sees it, Fields's whole life was shaped and distorted by his childhood experiences. "Fields's early grapples with things like hunger, frost, bartenders and police gave him a vast, watchful suspicion of society and its patterns." As a comedian, he appealed to the streak of fundamental pessimism lurking in everybody. In grownups, children and animals he always expected the worst-and he was usually right. Audiences found it uproarious...
...monastic life of the Order came the Bead Game, a kind of synthesis of human learning, which, in its subtlety, resembled both the chess game of master players and the improvisation of great musicians. One player stated a theme, perhaps a thought of a great philosopher, or a phrase of some medieval musician; his opponent replied with a complementary phrase, or with one opposing it, or related to it, and the Game proceeded, with constantly deepening associations, with references more varied, subtle and ingenious. The greatest players became the leaders of the Order, and the greatest of all its central...
...make him sore. Readers may feel somewhat the same way about The Best of Intentions. Its artificiality lies in the vagueness and unreality of Joe Moreton apart from, his adolescent and middle-aged embarrassments. The latter may have been real enough, but they are less than the whole of life, even in Manhattan...