Word: bowle
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...first Gotham Bowl at Manhattan's Polo Grounds, one of the West's best football teams proved no match for an also-ran from the rugged Southwest. Unbeaten, once tied Utah State bowed, 24-9, to the oft-beaten underdog, Baylor...
Ohio State tried its first dose of Ivy League "altruism" last week, and didn't like it. The Faculty Council of the nation's leading football (and basketball) power voted 28 to 25 not to allow its magnificent eleven to accept a bid to the Rose Bowl, after which, as any fool could have predicted, all hell broke loose in Columbus...
According to a source at Ohio State, the primary reason for the Council's decision was that a bowl trip would cause a certain amount of disruption among the student body. But lurking in the background was the sentiment of many professors that the university's image was suffering from the success of its athletic teams; to some, it was a matter for acute embarrassment that Ohio State annually tops the country in football attendance...
...however, was as infuriated as the players. The decision was exceptionally unpleasant for them, since they had won the right to play in the Rose Bowl and had been invited, only to have their own school turn them down. The team added greatly to the school's prestige, and engendered quite a bit of alumni interest that undoubtedly would not have existed otherwise; the Council's misguided altruism seemed like an unfeeling insult. What are the players supposed to do now? Study...
...with a wonderfully picaresque irregularity of Rabelaisian humor are broken off unexpectedly by passages approaching the drunken, frenzied poetry of a Rimbaud. Obscurity and philosophy, squalor and rhapsody are juxtaposed, crammed together, torn apart and tossed wildly, as if the book were the mixing bowl in which Miller, the mad chef, were preparing a salad -- to fling in the face of the diners. But not even in obscenity or nihilistic frenzy do we find a bit of solid ground. Obsence protests are continually undercut by a laugh, despair by a ray of happy contentedness; even the ferocious prophecies...