Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foot, closer to the plate, more mobile than the anchoring left foot. One easy practice swing--just one and then the body tightened. Bat drawn up and back with terrifying geometrical precision, lines and angles of force created by arms, elbows and wood. No nervous practice swings, just a slow waving of the bat. The pitch--and the explosion of energy, cracking the ball down the right field line...
...grounder to the mound, leveling the screams begging for a rally. Versalles moved easily towards second to make the double play--when confidence gave way to fragility. He dropped the ball, and runners were safe all around. Yazstrzemski whirled the bats about and hit a home run, a slow elegant home run which drew us after it in an orgasm of sound and motion...
Because of the slow pace of renewal since the ending of the Second Vatican Council, the underground church movement seems to be strongest among Roman Catholics-although most cells ecumenically include Protestants, Jews and even atheists. A few operate with quasi-official approval. On Chicago's South Side, for example, 40 members of St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, including one of its assistant pastors, form the nucleus of an underground congregation called Vatican 21. Why the name? Explains Robert Keeley, 29, a schoolteacher: "The church was supposed to be carrying out the spirit of Vatican II, instead...
...those slow afternoons in a Beverly Hills auto showroom, and Burt Sugarman, 28, the smoothly pompadoured proprietor, noodled at his desk. In the window reclined a long, low, old-fashioned jobbie with running boards, bicycle fenders and blindingly chromed supercharger exhausts curling out of the hood. Suddenly, an ill-clad geek with long hair popped into the shop. Sonny Buono, of Sonny and Cher, pointed at the glittery relic and asked: "What's that?" "Excalibur," replied Sugarman. "I'll take it," chirped Sonny...
Just as we have been slow to recognize the need for administrators in our courts, we have paid little attention to the practical problems of the administration of justice. Our clerks of court still operate much as they have throughout our history. Little effort has been made to study the clerk's offices not only with a view to improved administration but so study whether this or some other system is best geared to serve the needs of the bench and bar and thus assure better administration of justice...