Word: boast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modest man, Joseph dislikes personal publicity so much that his photo does not even appear in Grand Met's annual report. His only boast is that he works a mere four hours a day. He delegates as much authority as possible. "I do not want to become a prisoner of wealth, weighed down by responsibility," he says. In his plentiful spare time, Joseph likes to visit the cozy pubs that he owns personally. He also reads voraciously, and has a large collection of novels with plots that are set in hotels...
...Worldly Music, Hill presented 15 campaign songs from forgotten elections, many of them set to popular tunes of their day: "Oh dear, what can the matter be?/Women are wanting to vote!"; a rollicking boast of "Hoorah, hoorah, the country's risin'/ For Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen" to the tune of Old Dan Tucker; and a plaintive complaint about Prohibition with Old Black Joe's lyrics changed to "I'm thirsty, I'm thirsty/For the beer we used to know./I hear the gentle voices cal-ling,/'Have one, Joe.' " The truly grand...
Magog is a contemporary wizard -a civil servant whose vast power derives from the ritual manipulation of a bureaucracy that is every bit as arcane as any occult Druidic circle. With engaging arrogance he can honestly boast that "England waits at my out tray." As a highly informed fabulist, Sinclair romps through the same corridors of power that C.P. Snow shuffles through as an unimaginative realist. Myth, politics and culture are nimbly glossed as the author tells of Magog's rise to wealth and prestige. In 1948 Magog, as a specialist in foreign affairs, pays for his sack time...
Yale is a slight favorite, but the Crimson should give the Elis a tough match. Although they boast 11 experienced seniors, the Bulldogs have posted an unimpressive record this year, winning only 6 out of 14 games...
...meet Humphrey head-on in Indiana this week, and again in one-to-one primaries in Maryland and West Virginia. Wallace remains a force to be reckoned with, though some observers think that he merely wants to be the Democrats' Strom Thurmond -without real power, but able to boast of his influence in high places. Feeling his oats, he joked with reporters last week about his plans as President: "We just may have a lot of press censorship -but maybe I can get you boys a job in the basement or something. That be all right with...