Word: cato
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ground, snow in the forecast. Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, Yankee Stadium closed for the season. Faced with such spiritual deprivation, Cato fell on his sword and Ishmael shipped out to sea. Baseball buffs have a better way of alleviating off-season angst. Like fundamentalists who find solace in Scripture, they take down their own holy writ entitled The Baseball Encyclopedia. Impervious to time and temperature, the good book returns readers to baseball's Jurassic era, when teams were owned by individuals rather than conglomerates, when the game was played on vegetation instead of plastic, when professionals...
...long periods when he is not onscreen. One feels for Lom and the rest of the cast, working sweatily to be funny with not much help from the creative talents. On the other hand, Sellers is amply provided for. Once again, he is well served by his houseboy, Cato, hiding in his apartment and leaping out at him for ferociously funny karate encounters. Sellers also has a couple of fine set pieces-interrogating all the witnesses to the crime, wrestling with a Russian superspy (Lesley-Anne Down) and a ludicrously athletic attempt to penetrate Lom's castle...
...pipeline to Britain's ruling elite. Founded in 1791, the Observer has published some well-known British writers -George Orwell, Arnold Toynbee and, posthumously, Evelyn Waugh-and taken a few risks along the way. The paper was persecuted by the Crown for reporting the secret trial of the Cato Street conspirators in 1820, and alienated many readers by denouncing the British invasion of Suez...
...Inferno whose Satan wears a feather crown. But in general it was the noble Indian who would predominate. He became decorative in the late 17th century and positively rococo in the 18th, peering from cartouches, dallying under formalized palms. The ideas of Rousseau transmuted him into a red-skinned Cato or Brutus garbed in instinctive rectitude. And as he began to perish along the white frontier, the theme of racial destruction in a wild, vast landscape evoked lamentations from romantic artists who had never been there-especially from Delacroix, whose Les Natchez, 1824-35, is an American cousin...
From the very beginning, the appeal of the fin was irresistible. The very word angling derives from the ancient Greek onkos, or barbed hook. Circa 200 B.C., Cato the Elder (manifestly a non-angler) was astonished by tales of "a city where fish sold for more than an ox." (To the fisherman, the situation is unsurprising; acquiring the fish called for more ingenuity, greater effort and less tenderizer.) History's most prominent fisherman was, of course, St. Peter, who later turned to netting souls. In the years A.D., angling was seen as something more than the mere coaxing...