Word: zane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dream of a time when I should have lived." As he moved along the chitchat-and-canape circuit last week in his polka-dot shirt, Levi's and sneakers, he seemed more a displaced mountain man than movie star, a character created not by Logan but by Zane Grey. When he launched into one of his stories, punctuated with bammos! and whistles, arm waving and mimicry, he might well have been regaling a bunch of the boys around a campfire...
...Mattie Ross, narrated her adventures in the 1880s while tracking down her father's murderer with the aid of Cogburn, an aging federal marshal. The book was parodic frontier realism, a Frederic Remington painting with the colors put in by numbers: courageous red, sky blue, lily white and Zane gray...
...Squad Executive Producer Aaron Spelling is 46 and a veteran of such old standards as Playhouse 90 and The Zane Grey Theater. Now his language is so hip it hurts. "We're telling it like it is," he says. "Somebody has to help adults understand young people. They've got so many hang-ups, and nobody seems to care. Love is the answer. Those hippies are right. The kids are so totally involved with life they've involved...
...record shows that year by year, readers tended to be more discriminating in their choice of nonfiction than fiction. In 1920, John Maynard Keynes was duly recognized for his The Economic Consequences of the Peace (No. 2 in nonfiction). But the No. 1 novelist of the year was Zane Grey, author of The Man of the Forest. Nowhere in the top ten was there mention of This Side of Paradise, the first novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald...
...dreaming that anyone would dare commit lese majeste. Commercial "stick" boats run right up to the basking fish and let fly with harpoons. But, ah, for the sport fisherman, armed only with rod, reel, and a passion for punishment, it is an altogether different kettle of fish. Swordfishing, wrote Zane Grey, "takes more time, patience, endurance, study, skill, nerve and strength, not to mention money, of any game known to me." And Kip Farrington. who has probably landed more big fish than any man alive, says: "I would rather take one swordfish than five black marlin, ten blue marlin...