Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seasoning, Jackson was called up by the A's in 1968. At 6 ft. 2 in., 197 Ibs., the rookie rightfielder did not look like an overpowering slugger. Yet in a season dominated by superlative pitching, he hit 29 home runs. He also struck out 171 times-the second-highest total in major-league history. On top of that, he led American League outfielders in errors with twelve. "I took the bat with me to the outfield," Jackson explains. "When I did poorly at the plate, I used to brood about it out there...
Understandably, rock festivals have their failings. Among them: poor sound and visibility; inadequate parking, housing, sanitation facilities, and a mind-boggling plethora of uneven talent, which is often the result of a booking agency's insistence that a promoter has to take three or four second-rate acts to get a good name group. This summer's disturbances, however, do not mean that there is something inherent in rock that automatically leads to rioting; too many kids have lived un-rebelliously with today's pop sound for that to be true. Instead, the festivals seem to have...
...grapple with grief. In an effort to help them, a Navy psychiatrist at Camp Pendleton, Calif., has set up a program that uses their common tragedy to turn them toward the future. A teacher of group therapy at U.C.L.A. before entering the service, Lieut. Commander Leonard Zunin launched "Operation Second Life" with the idea that the best help for widows can come from other widows. In a sense, he is simply employing the form of help more "primitive" societies take for granted: letting the bereaved relieve their grief by expressing it openly. Zunin sold the idea to his military superiors...
...brass by a young experimental company, Ptakovina keeps audiences constantly off balance with laughter. But the most resounding applause comes without a laugh when the headmaster tells his own fiancee that he hasn't the heart to be a hypocrite any longer; that "I've lost my second face." "Better find it again," she warns. "It'll serve to mask your rage...
...second directly political play is The Jury, by Ivan Klima, another steadfastly liberal author. He puts onstage the deliberations of five jurymen in a criminal case. Slowly it becomes clear that a sixth juror has already been taken away for asking too many questions. Suddenly the remaining five see the accused for the first time. He has already been beheaded. As the jurors continue their deliberations, they come to the conclusion that the defendant was innocent. The play ends with the jurymen before the judge-where one after another they all vote "Guilty...