Word: walling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the gangly youngster's ferocious skill. He went to a friend named Van Houton (a tennis buff who liked to boast that he was the only self-employed racket stringer in Harlem), bought Althea a pair of secondhand rackets, and put her to work practicing against the wall of a handball court. A few weeks later he took her uptown to some public courts, and her performance was phenomenal. The other players quit their games to watch. In her first time on a tennis court, Althea learned the pleasure of playing to a gallery...
...still there on the wall of San Giuseppe Church...
Granting Life. Saturn, which Goya painted in old age, on a wall of his house near Madrid, is certainly tyrannical. How could he have lived with such images? Apparitions, says Malraux, "stealthy at first, had taken possession of the house as of Goya himself. He had granted them a life by night, something a little more substantial than the life in black and white of his engravings and fancies, a life in monochrome painting . . . Goya knew now that if there is a loneliness where the lonely man is rejected by his fellows, there is also another where he is lonely...
This may have been phrenology's finest hour. Bernard Baruch rose to become a wizard of Wall Street, a philanthropist, sportsman, landed squire, patriot, "adviser to Presidents," park-bench sage, and above all, a continuing American legend. Timed to appear on his 87th birthday, this first volume of his autobiography tells only half the Baruch story, barely reaching his World War I stint as czar of the War Industries Board (a companion volume in the fall of '58 will bring the saga up to date). The book packs no surprises, but in its engaging, unpretentious...
...would not hear of his leaving home, so he trudged 40 blocks a day each way to New York's City College. Ever mindful of the phrenologist's prophecy, his mother steered him toward the business world, and after his graduation in 1891 he found himself in Wall Street as a $5-a-week runner for a brokerage house. Four years later he was a junior partner at the age of 25, but he had speculated so wildly that he had made no money of his own in the market and had lost $8,000 of his father...