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...hard it must be to surrender, to never again put on spikes and smell the new-mown grass of an empty stadium. But how much harder it must be to walk out to the pitching mound or step into the batter's box knowing that you are expected to compete against striplings half your age. That is the bravery of Ryan, John, Sutton and Nettles as each game they pray that the mind can still command the muscles, that cunning can compensate for crumbling coordination. Men in their 40s are not meant to be gladiators; they are designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Boys of Late Autumn | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...snores in church, he eats with his fingers. He drinks and drinks and drinks some more from great pewter tank ards; when angered, he absentmindedly dashes beer into the face of a bulldog. He grabs young wenches by the backs of their skirts and topples them onto piles of new-mown hay. He is up to his pointed chin in geese, cattle, ducks, pigs, horses, and a yelping nation of dogs. Mornings, he can be found asleep on the hearth where he passed out, the coals of a great fire still dying beside him, a dog or two nestled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: Squire Hugh | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

...with Lionel Barrymore, who undertook to educate her by reading aloud from Kipling's Jungle Books. Her first success, the title role in Israel Zangwill's Merely Mary Ann, so moved critics during the play's three-year run that they "always seemed to write about new-mown hay when they saw it." Shaw went to Merely in London in 1904 and saw more than hay: "I'm forever yours devotedly. I take no interest in mere females, but I love all artists." To prove it, Shaw wrote Major Barbara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tin Cups at the Met | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

From the field there comes the breath of new-mown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Left Bank of the Wabash | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...White House, the magnolias were in full bloom and a fountain, surrounded by orange tulips, splashed beguilingly. Gardeners gave the lawn its first spring trim, and the smell of new-mown grass wafted through the open windows of Dwight Eisenhower's office. The President, like most Americans, responded to the beck of spring, tried to fit a little fun into the pressing routine of work. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Magnolia Time | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

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