Word: 20s
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Notre Dame's proprietary alumni, including many people who have never been to Indiana, regard victory as the minimum goal. Probably this traces back to Rockne's "Rockette" shifts and one-on-one blocking schemes that made every play of the '20s a potential touchdown. To Irish fans, it seems a reasonable expectation. Winning too much in the '40s, Leahy was broken in the '50s by losing at all. After eleven storied years Parseghian quit in 1974, officially because his blood pressure was zooming, ostensibly because the University of Southern California came from 24 points behind to beat Notre Dame...
...because I was doing the opposite." Yet most who meet Botero are struck by his huge charm and gregarious personality. He trained in Europe in the 1950s, and never became part of the abstract or conceptual art movements, instead sticking to the voluminous figurative style he formed in his 20s. Botero says he first became fascinated with "bolometric" shapes while living in Florence in 1953, inspired by Old Masters like Giotto and Botticelli: "I saw that volume gives a sensuality to painting. People say, 'When are you going to do something different?' I say, maybe never. The day I change...
...folks, who raised me--they didn't want to hear about it. That's because my father had left our family to become a prizefighter in New York and later an actor. I was never part of his family really, and it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I had a relationship with him. He played one of the Nubian slaves in a version of Caesar and Cleopatra, that sort of thing. In high school once, I saw a picture of my father in Look magazine, performing in a play by Lillian Smith called Strange Fruit...
...Rose, for example, is a medieval whodunit set in a monastery, Foucault's Pendulum a conspiracy of sects and secret societies. The new storyline plunges the author into a forensic examination of nostalgia. "By definition, the word nostalgia is the desire to return, to return to childhood or your 20s or 30s," says Eco, adding, "I'm fine where I am. My relationship with the past is one of tenderness and continuous discovery." One beat and he leans back with a laugh, having decided to confess: "O.K.," he says. "I have always been nostalgic for my childhood - it started when...
...Holocaust. Europe's old age is one of wisdom, not of Alzheimer's." His new book touches on politics, but also on faith. Raised Catholic, Eco has long since left the church. "Even though I'm still in love with that world, I stopped believing in God in my 20s after my doctoral studies on St. Thomas Aquinas. You could say he miraculously cured me of my faith," he says. He takes issue with other leading liberals' use of the word "fundamentalist" to describe Pope Benedict XVI's views. "Fundamentalism is a phenomenon that exists in Protestantism and Islam, among...