Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unarmed but for a pen, Isak Dinesen, 75, has spent the 27 years of her writing life routing the brute realities of the 20th century from her prose. Minute in output but masterful in style and content, Storyteller Dinesen (Seven Gothic Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny) pursues gothic romance in preference to realism, the aristocratic spirit above democratic camaraderie, fate before fact. She is Denmark's finest living writer and one of the world's best. No less a fan than Ernest Hemingway told his 1958 Nobel Prize audience that the award should have gone to Isak Dinesen...
Fullback: Bob Ferguson, 21, Ohio State; 6 ft., 225 Ibs. A junior, Ferguson has surprising speed in addition to pure brute power. "He runs over people-the other guys, his own guys, everybody...
They are the dashing, derring-do boys of the National Football League, a tight little elite of halfbacks who survive by speed of foot and wit in a jungle of brute force. Although they may weigh 190 Ibs. or more, they are seldom risked in the crunch of line bucks against wrathful 260-lb. tackles. Instead, they whip downfield for passes, or take a pitchout in full stride to sweep around end. Given a yard or two of maneuvering room, they can break a game wide open by slithering, pirouetting, stutter-stepping and sprinting through a field of tacklers...
...mainly because Ivy League law prevented Coach Jordan Olivar from holding spring practice. This year, with its fundamentals finally down pat, Yale blended power and finesse on the attack. With Pro Prospects Pyle and Guard Benny Balme (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) blocking up front, Yale had the brute strength to open holes for the driving runs of Fullback Blanchard (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.). When the defense bunched to stop Blanchard, Quarterback Singleton would run the option inside end-hitting like a fullback himself-or roll out to pass...
...treatment. There are other superstitions. Once Riou asked a mother whether she had given her seriously sick baby medicine the hospital had provided. "No, Father," she replied. "Why not?" he asked. The cryptic reply: "He's not baptized yet." Haitian peasants consider a child before baptism only a brute animal on which medicines would be wasted. Riou gave the infant medicine on the spot, made an appointment to baptize...