Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncritically generous-at birth, any little quarterly could count on a blurb and a bouquet of free poems as a present from him. He had no vanity, no avarice, no conceit, but he had strong and angry flashes of pride that described him perfectly in his poet's pose...
That's about all there was to the event, but it is mercilessly hashed over in the book like the long count in the Dempsey-Tunney championship. One way or another, it was the end of a touchy friendship...
...friendly, polite and stupid, gets drunk and inadvertently invents the mad fad of yo-yoing. To yoyo, one gets piggy-drunk, falls asleep in the subway, and rides back and forth all night. The yo-yo who makes the most trips is champion, and the crosstown shuttle does not count...
...Venezuela, as in most of Latin America, it could happen and it does with great frequency. Nearly half of Venezuelan children are born illegitimate-and that statistic does not count those born out of wedlock but recognized by the father. Only a third of all Venezuela's women are married, and another 20% live as concubines. Divorce, once rare in the predominantly Catholic country, has doubled in two decades. In a pastoral letter last fall, Caracas' José Humberto Cardinal Quintero and all Venezuela's bishops tried to remind Venezuelans of the "dignity and obligation of fatherhood...
Descended from a long line of weavers who set up looms in Valdagno nearly 200 years ago, the clan is headed by hardheaded, domineering Count Gaetano Marzotto, 68, who added hotels to his business after being bitten by marauding bedbugs during a stop in a hotel in Southern Italy. Made a noble in 1930 by King Victor Emmanuel chiefly for his exemplary treatment of his workers, Count Gaetano has five sons to carry on his title and the family business: Vittorio Emanuele, 40, a Liberal Deputy; Umberto, 36, who runs the farms; Paolo, 32, a sales executive with the retail...