Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more conventional stories tend to find their mark, but here too, the quality is uneven. In "Cortes and Montezuma," Barthelme demonstrates his mastery of a peculiar form that might be called transmogrification of legend, the same form he used in his novel Snow White and several short stories. He takes the fabeled meeting of Cortes and Montezuma and twists it, distorts it, makes it fresh. Among the stories, "Tales of the Swedish Army" relates a sudden meeting of the author and a unit of Swedish soldiers on maneuvers in lower Manhattan, an exercise of the imaginative virtuosity that has characterized...
...Crimson waited until the fourth to crack the scoreboard against the varied offerings of righthander Denny Works. Mike Stenhouse led off the inning with a drive to deep center that on any normal baseball day would have cleared the snow fence in center but was only a long out. "I thought that one was out for sure," Nahigian said. "The air was just dead out there and nothing carries...
...third, the wind spared left-fielder Mo some disgrace by carrying a drive by Bingham over the snow fence in left-center for a two-run home run, his first of the season. "That's my power," Bingham said later. "I keep my eye on the ball longer on an outside pitch. When it's inside, I have a tendency to yank my head...
Although the Harvard golf team could not get out to the course yesterday, the rain did not prevent that rite known as the first swing of spring from taking place as scheduled. Undaunted by the pelting rain and driven snow, Spence Fitzgibbons, one of the captains of the golf team, found a suitably muddy patch of turf and surrounded by a tatterdemalion group of caddies and onlookers proceeded to tee up his ball and waggle his driver in preparation...
...make an attempt to break all records for driving a golf ball. We selected a suitable spot and I managed to hit a good one which, with a strong wind, carried to the ice and, once on the smooth surface, slid across the lake and landed in a snow bank on the other side. The Major was highly elated over the stunt and decided to measure the distance...