Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Love and Larceny. "The fool banks in the crook's pocket." The old Italian proverb is wittily illustrated in this new Italian film: a merry little con manual that might serve equally for the instruction of rogues and the sophistication of innocents abroad. Educative excerpts...
...publishers, but reporters are part of this profession too. and if. failing to make an honorable peace, we acquiesce in the proposition that news is a dispensable commodity like soap, then we shall be treated like soap peddlers and deserve it. Values and duties have become so con fused that even the suggestion of publishing without the consent of the unions is now regarded as a declaration of war. How the old editors who founded our press would have hooted at that...
...estimates for 1962 run to 1,000,000. "It's the thing to drink if you want to belong to the Oberen Zehntausend [upper ten thousand]," explained a Bonn bartender. Smart Italians ask for their "ooeesky" Us do (straight) or con ghiàccio (on the rocks), and hosts pour their guests hefty slugs in large glasses, which are then nursed for the rest of the evening...
Shell & Worm. Chairbound souls, however, will put up with a lot from an author who has been there and back, whether "there" is the top of Everest or the depths of the soul. Burroughs has been there, all right; he is not only an ex-junkie, but an ex-con and. by accident, a killer. In Mexico, having acquired a wife, he shot her between the eyes playing William Tell with a revolver. (The Mexican authorities decided it was imprudentia criminate and dropped the whole matter.) He has even been in the Army, but not for long; he reacted...
...con man using the name "Fitzroy Hubert" has been operating in the Houses for the past two days. He has asked several different undergraduates for money, always under the pretense that he needs a loan to return to the university of Chicago...