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The Pitcher (Paperback)
William Elliott Hazelgrove
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"I never knew I had an arm until this guy called out, "Hey you want
to try and get a ball in the hole, sonny?" I was only nine, but mom
said, "come on, let's play." This Carney guy with no teeth and a
fuming cigarette hands me five blue rubber balls and says if I
throw three in the hole we win a prize. He's grinning, because he
took mom's five bucks and figures a sucker is born every minute.
That really got me, because we didn't have any money after Fernando
took off, and he only comes back to beat up mom and steal our
money. So I really wanted to get mom back something, you know, for
her five bucks."
A boy with a golden arm but no money for lessons. A mother who
wants to give her son his dream before she dies. A broken down
World Series pitcher who cannot go on after the death of his wife.
These are the elements of "The Pitcher." A story of a man at the
end of his dream and a boy whose dream is to make his high school
baseball team. In the tradition of "The Natura"l and "The Field of
Dreams," this is a mythic story about how a man and a boy meet in
the crossroads of their life and find a way to go on. You will
laugh and you will cry as "The Pitcher" and Ricky prepare for the
ultimate try out of life.
She would appear in more than thirty films and be named after a
Road Atlas by Cecil B Demille. A football play would be named after
her. She would appear on To Tell the Truth. She would be arrested
six times in one day for indecency. She would be immortalized in
the final scene of The Right Stuff, cartoons, popular culture, and
live on as the iconic symbol of the Chicago World's Fair of 1933.
She would pave the way for every sex symbol to follow from Marilyn
Monroe to Lady Gaga. She would die penniless and in debt. In the
end, Sammy Davis Jr. would write her a $10,000 check when she had
nothing left. Her name was Sally Rand. Until now, there has not
been a biography of Sally Rand. But you can draw a line from her to
Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, Raquel Welch, Ann Margret, Madonna,
and Lady Gaga. She broke the mold in 1933, by proclaiming the
female body as something beautiful and taking it out of the strip
club with her ethereal fan dance. She was a poor girl from the
Ozarks who ran away with a carnival, then joined the circus, and
finally made it to Hollywood where Cecil B Demille set her on the
road to fame with silent movies. When the talkies came her career
collapsed, and she ended up in Chicago, broke, sleeping in alleys.
Two ostrich feathers in a second-hand store rescued her from
obscurity.
University Of California Publications In Entomology, V27, No. 1.
Was nineteenth-century British philanthropy the "truest and
noblest woman's work" and praiseworthy for having raised the
nation's moral tone, or was it a dangerous mission likely to cause
the defeminization of its practitioners as they became "public
persons"? In Victorian England, women's participation in volunteer
work seemed to be a natural extension of their domestic role, but
like many other assumptions about gender roles, the connection
between charitable and domestic work is the result of specific
historical factors and cultural representations. Proponents of
women as charitable workers encouraged philanthropy as being ideal
work for a woman, while opponents feared the practice was destined
to lead to overly ambitious and manly behavior.
In The Angel out of the House Dorice Williams Elliott examines
the ways in which novels and other texts that portrayed women
performing charitable acts helped to make the inclusion of
philanthropic work in the domestic sphere seem natural and obvious.
And although many scholars have dismissed women's volunteer
endeavors as merely patriarchal collusion, Elliott argues that the
conjunction of novelistic and philanthropic discourse in the works
of women writers--among them George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell,
Hannah More and Anna Jameson--was crucial to the redefinition of
gender roles and class relations.
In a fascinating study of how literary works contribute to
cultural and historical change, Elliott's exploration of
philanthropic discourse in nineteenth-century literature
demonstrates just how essential that forum was in changing accepted
definitions of women and social relations.
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Title: Annals of Ealing, from the twelfth century to the present
time. Compiled from manorial and parochial documents ... With
introductory preface by W. E. Oliver.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This
collection includes works chronicling the development of Western
civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development
of language, political and educational systems, philosophy,
science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil
war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central
Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations,
and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic
record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool
in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library
Jackson, Edith; Oliver, William Elliott; 1898. xvi. 348 p.; 4 .
10350.d.43.
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