Word: wescott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, John Zink, Korczak Ziolkowski, Clint Wescott, and Jim West (to name a few) are truly eccentric. Surely none of these men are trying to convince anyone else of the advantages of their own particular ways of life. They are simply "people who consistently follow their own seemingly exotic standards" and are clearly not bidding for attention. Consideration must be given to the motives and methods of the individual in relation to existing social standards and how he wishes to affect them. If he wishes to affect them at all, he is not merely eccentric, but is in fact...
...that he roams the U.S. to find and ride them. An Arkansas housewife fills her house with flocks of birds that swirl through the rooms; she spends $200 a month to feed them-not to mention the cleaning bills. For ten years, a 52-year-old man named Clint Wescott camped in a weed-choked field in Los Angeles. Last year, when a New York lawyer tried to give him nearly $20,000 for the sale of the gas station that he had owned and abandoned, Wescott refused the money...
...sixth match, Yale's Bob Haar quickly downed Dick Appleby. Appleby, however, redeemed himself by winning the number one doubles match along with teammate Brian Davis. The two Crimson juniors, after starting slowly, edged a strong Yale combo of Brooks and Wescott...
...come to Harvard with an unblemished record, though a developing Yale team gave them quite a scare earlier in the season at New Haven. In the crucial number three match, with the score 4-4, Penn's Ed Serues rallied from five match points to defeat Yale's Jay Wescott...
...magnitude of the tragedy will be painfully apparent to the reader of this collection of stories. Author Porter has superb natural gifts. She has irony, she has imagery, she has language. "Her style," wrote Glenway Wescott, "is perfection. It just covers its subject matter as if it were green grass growing on a lawn." Above all, she can think-and therein lies her principal problem. She sees her characters less as people who must live than as problems to be solved. There is too little warmth and softness in her art. But hardness endures, and six or eight...