Word: loree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Immanuel Velikovsky, 84, Russian-born psychoanalyst and iconoclastic author, whose unorthodox theories of cosmic evolution, published in 1950 as Worlds in Collision, outraged scientists; in Princeton, N.J. Combining a vast knowledge of biblical and mythological lore with his study of Freud's analysis of the subconscious mind of Moses, Velikovsky developed a controversial theory of colliding planets. He contended-in total violation of the laws of celestial mechanics-that a fragment from the planet Jupiter brushed by earth in 1500 B.C. before settling into orbit as the planet Venus. The cataclysmic encounter, he claimed, caused hurricanes and floods...
...gray stone 70-room Home "hoose" on the English-Scottish border, surrounded by 3,000 acres of grouse moors and prime fishing spots along a stream called Leet Water. Angular Angler Home, who has tried "every known lure from the maggot to the dryest of flies," also dotes on lore. His technique for harvesting worms, a favorite bait: "Take a tablespoon of mustard, mix in warm water and sprinkle it on an area of lawn about a yard square. In two or three minutes, the worms will wriggle to the surface...
...central a figure in the history of the Sox as any of the players in the book; he is shown cajoling with Ted Williams, Reggie Smith, and everyone loved him. After he bought the franchise in 1933, Yawkey renovated Fenway Park and became the constant in Red Sox lore, and surrounding him has been heartbreak, hope and craziness, good...
...blame tenors for trying to ward off their demons with all the vanities for which they are so notorious?the fads, phobias, neuroses, magic charms and eccentric sexual regimens? (Dressing-room lore abounds with theories on whether singers should eschew sex before a performance and, if so, for how long. Most tenors seem to feel that two or three days of abstinence builds their strength. Several leading men in the 1940s, the story goes, were sabotaged by a shapely U.S. soprano who seduced them just before the curtain.) The only supernatural aid Pavarotti enlists to get himself onstage...
Harvard sports lore is full of stories about Barnaby, or "The Master," as the squash cognoscenti often say. Like the time he rebuilt the post-war squad in one year, leading them to a championship the next. Or his dramatic finale as squash coach, when his Crimson racquetmen toppled heavily-favored Princeton, 6-3, to cop yet another national title...