Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that employs roughly 1% of the nation's total working force. Millions of Brazilians play it every day, and almost all have at least a nodding acquaintance with their local bicheiros. "If you see two shacks lost somewhere in the backlands," a Brazilian diplomat once observed, "you can bet that a bicheiro lives in one of them and a steady bettor in the other...
...would bet on the last. This anthology is one long, heavy, awkwardly put-together Curiosity. Admittedly, reading the lyrics of young T.S. Eliot '10--already slightly bored, effete, with allusions to classical figures and scenes--is a "critic's delight," as Culler claims. The careful reader will find parallels with "Prufrock" in "Spleen," written when Eliot...
Captain Tony Lynch, defending champion in the 60-yard hurdles, is Harvard's surest first-place bet. Lynch ran 7.2 for second place in the IC's, and the nearest Heptagonal competitor was Navy's Joe Wiggins in the fifth spot. Amount sophomore Gordon Rule, who upset Lynch in over, should battle Wiggins for second place tonight...
...chairman of the policymaking N.A.A.C.P. board of directors in 1960, Weaver has never been a picket-line, front-line fighter in the civil rights movement. His role has been, in his words, that of "a liberal rather than a Negro; I feel that black chauvinism is no bet ter than white chauvinism...
...Britain did not interfere. Even at that, though, the Israelis seem pretty safe. As one West German rocketeer in Egypt mourns: "Our guidance systems are so unreliable that if we were to aim for Tel Aviv, it's an even bet that we'd hit Beirut...