Word: conning
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...looked upon the controversy as something that someone else will fight for so long that it may soon have to make a decision for itself. And the Administration realizes that no matter what decision it makes--to sell the part of Harvard's Black Rock Forest needed by Con Ed, to fight the project, or not to decide at all--it will make enemies somewhere...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, has insisted repeatedly that "no decision is imminent." But it seems doubtful that Con Ed will break ground without assurances from Harvard that the needed land will be sold...
...Clifford Irving must pass his now dusty "Con Man of the Year" award to another deserving trickster, Richard Nixon...
...Tigers' most reliable pinch hitters. "1 was able to take advantage of my opportunity," he says, "and I hope LeFlore can too." He had also best take advantage of opposing pitchers: after two weeks with the Clinton Pilots, LeFlore was batting a dismal .125. The ex-con rookie is confident that his hit ting will improve once he overcomes a slight case of nerves and gets accustomed to playing night games. In prison, he explains, the floodlights were not used for baseball...
...relevance of art. What has grown in the gap left by Dada's failed promise is not only the staunchness of the New Conservatives but also a dangerously pre-emptive sort of subjectivism in contemporary criticism. Here, the critic assumes that his job is to smell out the con. So what he likes he deems "real art," what he doesn't is "anti-art" or "non-art." But this means that when a certain critic goes against the grain of the general consensus and pronounces something "bad" already determined by the others to be "good," he is not only panning...