Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first two men in the eighth, he walked Combs and Tom Bilodeau and hit Terry Bartolet with a pitch. Tom Stephenson, a strikeout victim on three previous occasions, came through with a single to score two runs. Pinch hitter Gary Miller walked, and when Bartolet scored on a wild pitch, Branson left the game...
...Crimson couldn't score another earned run after the first inning, however. In the fourth, Army simply gave the varsity a run Curly Combs reached first on an error and then advanced to second on a wild pitch. Bilodeau blooped a short single to left and Combs held at third...
Close to Melville. Nolan describes the framework of his art as "deep space" or "man in an extreme environment." He could just as well be defining the history of Australia itself. Like the U.S. Wild West, Australia's vast mid-continental frontier has been a breeder of legends. And always the theme is man against terrifying odds. It may be drought, heat or the devastating loneliness of an outback town; the protagonist may be a gold digger, convict, explorer or the legendary Aussie bandit, Ned Kelly, defying a continent...
...Kelly, to be a creature who has come out of the bush." In Explorer, Rocky Landscape, the protagonist looks as if he were attached, centaurlike, to his camel, as if the two were "united for survival." A century ago, explorers and traders introduced camels to Australia, and a few wild ones can still be seen, bringing to the continent "an archaic. Biblical feeling." It is the man's nakedness that fills the painting with a feeling of doom. In mid-Australia, stripping off clcothes is legendarily the last crazed, automatic act of a man dying for lack of water...
Either way, he is a man and a half. He has a wild mind with a living education in it. He is bright and perceptive to an alarming degree, a rare and dangerous thing in an actor. He laughs honestly. He lies winningly. He trusts absolutely, and he is as pretty as a hill of granite. He can make anyone laugh. He can talk a man under the table about literature, displaying huge sophistication and no cant. He reads rapidly, but he gives a book its due: a novel like Anglo-Saxon Attitudes costs him only two hours, but Moby...