Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giving us a character who couldn't sheathe his sword, after last season in which too many couldn't extract their weapons. Choreographer Theresa Dickinson provided some pleasing dances, and outstanding movement by the policemen's chorus. Offspring of Sir Robert Peel, they and their well-shined escutcheons boast a bend sinister--they are clearly bastard descendants of Mack Sennett. The Keystone Cops had nothing on this crew in hilarity, and DcVoto should get a medieval medal for putting some of their lines into Gregorian chant...
...again glaringly evident. Student followers of the imprisoned Pierre Lagaillarde, right-wing leader of the January insurrection, have again begun collecting small arms and are spoiling for a fight. A blacklist of known Gaullists, left-wingers and liberals is being circulated in ultra-rightist circles, and terrorists openly boast that "this time we will stage summary executions ourselves." In the garrison town of Castiglione, 25 miles from Algiers, a hundred junior officers met in secret to discuss how they could best save the idea of "Algérie Francaise." The army high command, which last January promised to keep...
...years before Congolese independence, Belgium's starchly paternalistic colonial officials were fond of boasting that the standard of medical care in the Congo was the highest in all Africa. Last week the boast sounded more hypocritical than Hippocratic...
Most of the teams in the meet--the Ivies, plus Army and Navy, boast at least one good runner fast enough to take the race if he had a good day and everyone else had a bad one. The most likely winner, other than Lowe, is Dartmouth's Tom Laris. Crimson runner Mark Mullin, however, beat Laris by almost ten yards after a step-for-step duel over five miles in this fall's Harvard-Dartmouth meet...
...foreign languages. In 1957 he jolted traditionalists by setting up a female branch at Karaouine, where the enrollment (6,325) now includes 1,197 women. Soon will come another big revolution: 3,000 cramped boarders will move to airy dormitories on the new campus outside Fez, which will boast 70 modern classrooms and laboratories and such un heard of niceties as a laundry, athletic field, infirmary and dining halls...