Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welfare, he experienced a degree of culture shock. He shared a drafty enclosed patio with a teen-age son. For his first breakfast he was offered "eggs and orange juice." He happily accepted until he noticed that the raw eggs were in the juice. With this came a bowl of brown soup. What, Robitzer gently inquired, was that? Menudo, was the reply, or tripe soup. Robitzer settled for coffee. Conversation did not come easily in the beginning, but eventually they made a breakthrough. Says Robitzer: "Somehow we managed to talk about everything from police brutality to life in Mexico...
...almost any standards, here is a story of privilege and deserved success. But there are more than cracks in Clark's golden bowl-the usual hint of sublime dissatisfaction successful men feel obliged to point out. A vein of self-contempt-sometimes but not always playful-runs throughout the book. Clark speaks of "the evasions and half-truths" encouraged by the lecture form. Reviewing his decision to become a museum director, he concludes: "I took the wrong turning." The London art world he compares to "a battlefield at nightfall," and seems to despise himself for surviving it: "I learnt...
...Harvard lightweights will be shooting for their second straight victory of the season today, taking on down-river rival MIT and Dartmouth on the Charles, in competition for the Biglin Bowl...
...tradition means anything, the Crimson should breeze to victory, having taken the bowl ten consecutive times, and in 17 of the 20 years it has been offered. As usual, however, MIT should provide the first real test of the lights for the year. Last year the Crimson went into the race an underdog, but came out on top by six seconds...
...peaceable times, a medieval life had more civilized compensations than smug modern man imagines. Until the great castle halls fell into disuse, master and servant ate congenially in common. At table (regularly spread with fresh linen), two people often shared a bowl, helping themselves with fingers. But a strict etiquette governed the sharing, and hands and nails were expected to be scrupulously clean. Plumbing in the larger castles, the authors say, was better than that of 17th century Versailles: every floor had a washing area-some with running water, even baths. Latrines were often conveniently perched out over the castle...