Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...must have the speed of a sprinter to keep up with whippet-fast backs and ends as they break for passes. He must have the wit to diagnose plays in advance, the instinct to follow them as they unfold. He must have the strength and guts to hurl himself head-on at a 230-lb. fullback. And he must learn to live with the chilling reality that as the last line of defense, every time he makes a mistake the enemy gets six points. In the N.F.L., the safety man who comes closest to achieving the impossible...
Method for Mayhem. "When a fullback like Jimmy Brown of the Cleveland Browns breaks loose up the middle." says Patton in discussing the science of the safety man, "I don't watch his head. He can fake me with his head. I watch his belt buckle, and I keep my eye on it, just the way a batter watches a baseball. He can't wiggle that belt buckle. I get down low enough to get below his shoulder and try to hit him headon. It's easy enough to get to Brown's belly. Holding...
...have only one clear path. At the snap of the ball, the two men start a routine as formal yet as frantic as a minuet in oldtime flicker films. Running backward all the while, Patton must counter the receiver's maneuvers without falling for a fake. To avoid head, arm and hip fakes. Patton watches a spot roughly in the vicinity of the receiver's wishbone, on the sound theory that it will turn when the receiver himself turns and begins to cut. "Then," says Patton, "you've got to react fast. If he gets more than...
What to Do? In a reply to Timesman Canaday last week, Tastemaker Barr tried to explain that his "rather garbled remark" had been "eagerly misinterpreted as an obituary. It was not. American abstract expressionism, in its robust middle age, is going strong"-despite "the hostile attitude of the head critics of the leading New York newspapers." But what caused Barr real pain was his unwanted reputation as the most powerful taste-maker in America. "I am more than embarrassed," he wrote, "I am dismayed. Any influence I may have is largely dependent upon the institution where I work...
...with the half-hour weekly Flintstones to keep going, the whole company is going off its rocker trying to think up Stone Age puns. Sooner or later they may have to introduce a new character called Spelunk-head, the village idiot. Mrs. Flintstone could ask her husband to please pass the basalt and pepper, and in redoing the kitchen, she could be for marble table tops, while he is for mica. In the next few weeks the Flintstones and their neighbors will be in and out of a jazz palace called Rockland and a movie set where The Monster from...