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...sabre team, which had of late looked the dominating force it was a year ago, suffered a blunt setback, losing 5-4. And it would have been worse if Crimson captain Terry Valenzuela, who should be a shoo-in for All-Ivy honors, hadn't come up with an outstanding performance, winning three straight...
RHODES IS MORE than just another mad apocalyptic genius. There is a basic country-storyteller streak in him, and a good grounding in the blunt candor of the agrarian Midwest. His lack of urbanity is replaced by a prodigious experience: we believe that he cannot imagine people really talking any other way than without pretense. With a natural sense of rough, monotonal dialogue and plodding, deadpan humor, he can do some amazing things. At one point Reuben is looking for work. He sees a want ad for a job as a farm hand, and goes to visit the old farmer...
WHILE visiting Harry Truman in the closing months of his presidency, Winston Churchill spoke with blunt generosity: "The last time you and I sat across a conference table was at Potsdam. I must confess, sir, I held you in very low regard. I loathed your taking the place of Franklin Roosevelt. I misjudged you badly. Since that time, you, more than any other man, have saved Western civilization...
Tanaka and Osano first met in Tokyo during the immediate postwar period when both were scrambling for the top. Their durable friendship is largely based on their strikingly similar personalities. Both are blunt, decisive men of peasant stock in a society that has raised silken circumspection to an ethic. For all his swashbuckling, Osano's greatest assets are a prodigious capacity for work and an instinct for the well-timed business deal. For example, he was early in spotting his countrymen's wanderlust, and even before Japanese tourists began rushing to Hawaii, he invested in hotels there...
Diana's life is no less unconventional than her attitudes about acting. Unmarried, she lives alone in a nondescript house in Barnes, a decidedly unfashionable London neighborhood south of the Thames. She reads books. She is blunt. She speaks out, at times in four-letter words, on Women's Lib or birth control. She frankly discusses the fact that she lived for eight years with a married man, probably will do so again, and has no intention of ever marrying...