Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some other calamities, he plugged along until about a year and a half ago, when his records caught on big in the Country & Western field. At an appearance last spring at The Scene in Manhattan, where he received a standing ovation, tears were seen welling in his eyes. "I think it was sweat," says Jerry Lee. "But it was a great feeling. They really went wild. Maybe it was tears...
...rarity, is easier than a theft of second base because a smart runner can get a sizable jump on a pitcher, especially if the hurler is going into a full windup. Carew makes that arguable statement sound unassailable. "Each time he stole home," says Martin, "you'd think he'd been shot out of a cannon...
...Carew. "Martin has given a whole new spirit to the team." Roseboro and Killebrew, the club's elder statesmen, agree. "Martin gets excited and raises a lot of hell," says Roseboro, "but he keeps you on your toes." Says Killebrew: "This is a happy team now. I really think we can win it all this year." If they do, they can attribute their success to the fact that, compared with last year's band of bickering individualists, the 1969 Twins have become downright fraternal...
...MIGHT AS WELL admit it, and risk the inevitable and gleeful Newsweek article that usually makes us think ten times before saying anything. It is impossible to talk to anyone over thirty. Think of the last few times you tried. Think of the time you tried to tell your parents why you were unhappy and why Harvard made you uptight, and that maybe it wasn't just adolescent growing pains or if its was they were a lot profounder than anybody imagined...
...Think of the benignly perplexed look in your father's tired, nine-to-five eyes when you told him over half-finished coffee and stale cigarettes that you couldn't become a doctor until you changed the world so that it was worthwhile to keep people alive...