Word: boast
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...what if the Ivy League doesn't exactly scare Notre Dame in football? Columbia's fencers are the best in the U.S. So, probably, are Yale's swimmers: what other team can boast a man (Don Schollander) who won four gold medals at the 1964 Olympics? Then there are Cornell's hockey players and Pennsylvania's league champion basketball team. From now on, though, nobody will know for sure how good any of the Ivy athletes are-because last week the league angrily withdrew from all N.C.A.A. championship competition...
...schools. A 17-year-old user reports that there is a sales ring in his Sherman Oaks school pushing LSD at a penny a microgram. The usual dose of the pure chemical, used by psychiatric investigators, is 100 mcg. (1/300,000th of an ounce), but even junior acid heads boast of taking walloping overdoses. "I've taken as much as 500 micrograms," says one youthful user. "At least that's what I paid...
Size-Four Stompers. Motown Records is currently promoting a nine-year-old wailer named Little Lisa, who, they boast, "will become the next Shirley Temple." Decca Records has a prepubescent dreamboat named Keith Green, 12, who has been signed to a five-year contract. He has already written 50 rock-'n'-roll songs, which he croons in a voice trembling with conviction ("Youuu are the girlll/ I am the boyyy/ Yes, it seems we're in loove...
...that the New Wave in the French cinema has finally run its course, critics both in Europe and this country are coming to the conclusion that the movement has produced the most significant advances in the history of film so far. France could boast of few first-rate directors in 1957-58, but today there remains little doubt that Paris is the capital of the film-world with Rome a very distant second. Although it is too early to ascribe definite trends to the New Wave, its history of intense experimentation has undoubtedly altered our concept of film...
Because of this attitude, many of the attacks that used to be directed at divorce itself have now shifted to the law. The pressure to make divorce laws more humane also draws strength from the realization that the divorce rate, while hardly anything to boast about, is not really as alarming as it is often made out to be. The rate of divorce in the U.S. has actually held rather steady for 15 years, and the vast majority of Americans still stay married "until death do us part." The rate hit an all-time high of 18.2 divorces...