Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minute-and-a-half after Bowdoin's Leo Tracy shattered goalie Bill Fitzsimmons' bid for an effortless shutout with a 25-foot screen shot, starting left-winger Dennis McCullough hit center Kent Parrot at mid-ice with a long lead pass. The one defenseman between Parrot and the goal appeared to ride the slick-sticking sophomore off to the left, until Parrot stopped short, swung around, and in one motion bulleted the puck into the far corner...
Casual as a man singing in the shower, he dipped and soared to either end of his register with effortless ease, deftly switched from sustained pianissimos to quaking explosions of wall-to-wall thun der. But for all his raw power, the brightly burnished timbre of his voice carries a built-in caress. Ghiaurov, at 36, is unquestionably the best basso singing today...
...always, Updike's lean, acrobatic prose makes his performance look effortless: sunlight is "like raw ore still heaped on the upper half of the barn wall," birds on a wire "darkly punctuated an invisible sentence." One sweep of his pen can illuminate whole facets of life: after Joey's mother suffers a severe and terrifying attack of angina, 11-year-old Richard hurries to the homestead to see "a parade he was afraid of missing and afraid of catching...
...only five points and Yale by three. However, it seems inconceivable that the unbeaten Green could lose to Columbia, a mediocre team in every respect. After their experience at New Haven last Saturday. Coach Bob Blackman's charges will probably be guarding against a letdown and should score an effortless triumph...
Geyser of Words. Again, poetry saved his sanity. "Effortless and unpreventable," it burst out of him like a geyser-three, four, a dozen poems a day. From the first his verse was simple, sensual, strong; though he rarely employed a metaphor, he continually induced his readers to produce their own images, to feel in their bodies what appeared on the page. At 22, in a violent convulsion of composition, he produced a five-act farrago called Götz von Berlichingen that read like second-rate Shakespeare but made him famous overnight as a leader in a new literary movement...