Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blomberg, Al Rosen and Richie Shienblum come to mind, but after them a good Jewish ballplayer is hard to find...
...SKEPTICS will always wince at cliches about youth rebellion and yarns of repressive society, but perhaps it is because they are the ones in control. The truth is that any society sets standards, and ours sets quite a few. When those standards become so complex and exacting that your mind feels full of pins and needles and your life is spent on everything but yourself...
Wave is the realization of a musical direction which Patti Smith has sought for a long time--the unification of poetry and sound--and commercial success has given her the freedom to do whatever she wants in a studio. And no one can deny her talent, her mind and her music--it still moves. What is a punk, anyway? Where have you seen safety pins put through leather jackets and chains and clashing colors worn with jackboots? It's nowhere. It's nothing. It's a unique look, deliberately designed to resemble nothing else around it: it is an effort...
...made Rookie of the Year. No? Duke Carmel, the next DiMaggio, or Bobby Murcer, the next Mantle? Horace "Hoss" Clarke, keystone man fielding like a keystone--ricochet off the chest and take it from there--him neither? But you remember Ralph Houk, kicking the dirt; it sticks in your mind, an emblem of an era of frustration...
...varsity, yesterday's race will be fresh in the crew's mind come Sunday. "You have to lose sometime," Brown said. "But it hurts. And the more it hurts, the harder you row the next weekend...