Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sargent, a converted third baseman who has suddenly deveoped into a top-notch pitcher, hurled the Crimson baseball team to an 8-3 win over Boston University yesterday at Splinter Stadium...
...Sargent struck out six Terriers and walked only one. The three runs he allowed were all unearned and he pitched the full nine innings, while his earned run avarage sank to a miniscule...
Scornful as he was of this work, Sargent's portraits almost never flattered, almost always illuminated personality to the surprised satisfaction of the sitter-although in the case of the famed Madame X, Sargent was so daringly personal in depicting her titian tresses and her fetish for lavendar face powder that the exotic sitter's true name (Judith Gautreau) was concealed from Victorian society. "Sargent" meant "portrait" -work high in esteem during his lifetime, low after his death in 1925 when he became confused with less talented imitators, high again now that most of the portraits have found...
...Live. Sargent was born in Florence in 1856 to a weak-willed Phil adelphia doctor whose wife expatriated his family to a never-ending Grand Tour of Europe. He never saw the U.S. until 1876, learning his art in fashionable Parisian ateliers. This pursuit was largely a pragmatic matter, a way to live, as his friend and fellow expatriate Novelist Henry James would say. His style, tempered by Frans Hals and Velasquez, soon showed an ease of execution, joyous color, and devotion to manipulated reality...
Coach Norm Shepard will probably start Lee Sargent today. The converted third baseman was a 1-0 record this season and a respectable 0.75 earned run average. Shepard is saving ace southpaw Paul Del Rossi for tomorrow's contest against Eastern League powerhouse Brown...