Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever Ike is and whatever Ike may yet become derives from his boyhood in the Abilene, Kans, of the 1890s. Ike and his brothers were taught to be mindful of their parents and their Bibles ("there was nothing sad about their religion"). The youngsters played tag on the barn roof and dared one another to lean over the edge, fished lazily for catfish in Mud Creek and the Smoky Hill River, fanned imaginary six-shooters in the style of Abilene's old Marshal Wild Bill Hickok, who had journeyed away to his death in Deadwood not 30 years before...
...goal (63 yards, in 1915, by Dakota Wesleyan's Halfback Mark Payne). Eye catcher is a color portfolio of portraits of Christ, vividly demonstrating how men have altered Christ's image to accord with the temper of their times and of themselves. The portraits range from the sad ascetic of the earliest 2nd century drawings through the agonized Renaissance Christ of Flemish Painter Albrecht Bouts to the smiling companion of Contemporary Ohio Painter Ivan Pusecker...
...Sad Arithmetic. The story of the series was the story of young Yankee pitchers and aging Dodger batters. For the first two games the Dodgers hit at a .313 clip. Then they collapsed. In the last five games Dodger hitters hit at an appalling .142 clip. They finished with a sad total of .195. No team had ever done worse in a seven-game series...
Except for stalwart Enos Slaughter, the Yankees looked young enough to stay champions for a long time; the Dodgers will be a long time recovering. The big names that brought them to the top -Campanella, Robinson, Reese, Snider -are aging fast. No matter how they add it up, the sad arithmetic of their decline will always be the same. Said Columnist Bugs Baer, with embarrassing logic: "When you score only one run in three games, you gotta lose...
...sad fact, however, that this noble blood strain has not been able to maintain its pure position. The entrance of Commander Whitehead into commerce is only the most obvious example of internal difficulty. The Muse no longer smiles constantly on that house. D.H. Lawrence and Ezra Pound, proud members of the Line, have, brought credit, but showed signs of a weakening of the force which ran through Longfellow...