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...above all, keep us entertained, keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts, I'm sure you can do it all without studying...
...classic Democratic primary to fill the U.S. Congress seat being vacated by Senate hopeful James M. Shannon, a barroom brawl well-matched enough to be interesting, and chock full of snide advertising, nasty charges and heated countercharges...
...course, I realize this will be seen as conversial; it is just chock-full of double plusungood-thought. I can only hope that I will provoke some reasoned response instead of the nonsense currently spewing from both sides of the issue. Jim Chiavelli...
...Olympic hockey team is handsomely endowed by five major sponsors (Miller beer, Sasson clothes, Isuzu Motors, Bristol-Myers and Chock Full O' Nuts coffee) plus gate and television receipts from its 65-game exhibition tour; one televised match with the Soviet All-Stars in Lake Placid provided $500,000 of the $1.3 million budget, about a tenth of which is funded by the U.S. Olympic Committee. The ski team has 23 sponsors (including Oscar de la Renta, Texas Instruments, Subaru) and a $4.5 million budget. The "amateur" skiers can strike rich endorsement deals as long as the money is paid...
...prefer the particular to the universal, the sobering fact to the examinating myth, required both courage and self-denial," Boorstin praises Herodotus and Thucydides, the pathbreaking Greek historians. He demonstrates such courage and self-denial: The Discoverers is chock-full of particulars and laced with sobering facts. We see how the botanist Linnaeus originated the idea of species by looking at the sex organs of plants (and how he inspired Charles Darwin's grandfather to write lyric poems about plants' amours). We learn how fastidious anatomists preserved for centuries their ignorance about the true form of the human body...