Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While South Americans were taking the big matches at Wimbledon (see above), only a handful of spectators turned out" to watch a blond, 16-year-old Estonian named Toomas Lejus win Russia's first Wimbledon title by routing Brazilian Davis Cupper Ronald Barnes 6-2, 6-4 for the junior championship, proving how far the Soviets have come in their drive for big-time tennis...
...merrily did Harvard row-row-row its boats up the Thames that the undefeated heavyweight varsity swamped the Thames Rowing Club, and the lightweights beat London University, to bring off the first sweep of both major events by a U.S. challenger in the history of the 120-year-old Henley Royal Regatta. ¶ The Boston Red Sox were last in the American League race, and to Owner Tom Yawkey the next move was obvious. Out went Manager Mike ("Pinky") Higgins, 50. In came Billy Jurges, 51, the old National League shortstop (Chicago, New York), who declared an equally obvious formula...
...dress rehearsals after trying to sing over howling winds, and the chorus of miners, recruited from local choirs and glee clubs, groped for entrance cues. In the waning hours before the curtain, carpenters hustled about frantically shoring up scenery. But on opening night, Puccini's grand old horse opera went off with scarcely a hitch, moved a capacity audience to reverberating applause. The heroes of the evening, in the eyes of Director Graf, were without question the Western quarter horses. "They don't sing, they don't argue, they take directions," said he, "and they act very...
...Corner) is more than qualified to add his own exhortations to the professor's lecture. Some of White's Strunkian reminders: Do not overwrite. Do not overstate. Do not explain too much. Avoid fancy words. Revise and rewrite. Perhaps above all, shun the modern euphoria of Old Spontaneous Me ("Stay out of the act"). To White, style cannot be separated from sense: "The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one . . . Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat...
...prize example of the master's ecstatic old age, and the Metropolitan's seventh El Greco. Most famous among the other six are the magnificent Portrait of Cardinal Nino de Guevara and the unique View of Toledo. The Cardinal keeps all the bloom of the painter's passion, but Toledo has suffered and so has the fabulous new Vision. One New York critic complained that the Metropolitan's restorers had understood "El Greco in terms of 20th century expressionism...