Word: betters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smith thought that being the established first quarterback would help him psychologically. "I feel badly about Frank's quitting, but you always like to know you're number one, and it makes you try twice as hard," he said. "I seem to do a lot better in that position," he added...
...behind, 13-10. There was one consolation-the Crimson had the ball. The press box people, strange species that they are, were yelling for Richie Szaro, the boy from Brooklyn, who was recruited by a Kennedy. They wanted a 65-yard field goal, figuring the chances of scoring were better. But then there was Frank Champi, and percentage would have been against John Yovicsin taking him out. Think if Yovicsin had taken him out at that same point in the Yale game. So Frank stayed...
...that doesn't make life any better for Ray and Alice's friends, even though it should. They set up a restaurant for Alice in the middle of Stockbridge, but it collapses in a marital spat between the Brocks. Shelly, a guy in the group who likes motorcycles, art and heroin, kicks the smack habit only to revert to it later on when he discovers that he can't have Alice for his very own. Arlo beats the draft only to realize that "the good things in [his] life seem to come out of not doing what [he] doesn...
...SONG tells us, "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant, exceptin' Alice" -and that's the whole story. We can't get Alice. We can't get at that central heartbeat that is the real source of life any better than Richard Nixon can. And if we can't get at that, we might as well be dead. When Shelly discovers that he can't have Alice, he not only goes back to heroin, but he kills himself...
...killed several men in his company. He killed someone in Texas, and went to jail for two years. He became a hired gunfighter, and was killed along with King Fisher by unknown assassins in Jack Harris's Vaudeville Theatre. Bat Masterson wrote of him: "There was never a better-hearted man than Ben Thompson. It is doubtful if in his time there was another man living who equalled him with a pistol in a life and death struggle...