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Moreover the Cornell runners are unbeaten in 18 connective dual meets. Only Harvard was able to put a blot on that record, holding Cornell to a 26-28 tie in 1970. In that race, Harvard's Tom Spengler defeated All-American Jen Anderson, a member of the U.S. Olympic team this year. Spengler finished in record time...
Thus, to the Mafia, even murder is not abhorrent if it advances the fortunes of the family or wipes out a blot on its honor. "It's just business," killers in The Godfather explain to rivals whose friends and relatives they have machine-gunned or garroted to death. Not only that, but it is business with honor, and takes precedence over the law. Inside his family, says Ianni, the Mafioso is "highly moral and self-sacrificing." But outside, he recognizes no ethical force. Family members, as in Sicily, are bound together by "the web of kinship; of the participants...
They are a raunchily genteel exercise-Belle Watling as Jane Austen. This is Pauline commenting on the doomed marriage of one of her girls to a "trick": "Ghosts of past lovers soon blot out the fragile spark of passion, leaving only bitter ashes on love's hearthstone." A 250-lb. termagant who served on occasion as her own bouncer, Pauline can also be and talk, as she might say, rough as a cob. Not surprisingly, she turns out to be a moralist. Pornography shocks her. So does wife swapping. Homosexuals are "lovey-dovey gay boys" and feminists are YLib...
...aesthetically appropriate form. Of such able printmakers as Rembrandt, Canaletto, William Blake or Aubrey Beardsley, we cannot say that they shrunk from the beautiful as Oscar Wilde once declared of American artist James McNeil Whistler; "Ah, Whistler! Yes, wonderful of course, but, how he fears beauty! He puts a blot, a mere stain like a petal, a butterfly upon a sheet of paper and dares not touch it, lest its charm be lost. His portraits remind me of the painter in Balzac's Chefd' oeuvre inconnu, laboring his canvas for years and when he draws the curtain to show...
...crew-cut or otherwise, would have guessed that during the wondrous decade of the '50s, the response to a single ink blot could be used as the standard by which to gain value judgment of this or any other period [Sept. 6]. Furthermore, probably only Psychologist Fred Brown would have discovered that a 51% "female" response indicates a breakdown in sex-role differentiation, whereas a 51% "male" response does...