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...calculations so quickly that his opponents have dubbed him "the Computer." In the past two years he has won over $40,000 in tournament prizes-and far more in private games. The intrusion of these professional players into what before Obolensky's promotion was strictly a genteel, upper-crust diversion has proven upsetting to some members of the old-school backgammon establishment. "Gammon is supposed to be fun," says Lewis Deyong, a London businessman who is one of the world's top-ranked players. "But with all these bridge types in the game it has become kind...
...Harvard as a young gentleman of the old school. How could it have been otherwise? Only sons of well-to-do families could afford to travel to America and spend several years there. And when he returned home he and his colleagues were a part of the small upper crust of Chinese society...
...simple, uncomplicated sphere but a true planetary body with a complex history and evolution of its own. Like the earth, the moon was once at least partially molten, and thus became differentiated (many heavier elements sank toward its center, while lighter elements floated to the surface to form a crust). In the words of Apollo's chief scientist, Noel Hinners: "It is a piece of the solar pot from which all the inner planets are made. We had no idea of that before we went there." Indeed, it is the rich lode of moon data already brought back...
...frightening place, full of omens and nameless entities, some hostile, others benevolent. His posture, Don Juan insists, must be that of "a warrior"-agile, perfectly disciplined, capable of acting with "controlled abandon." In the Yaqui sorcerer's system, drugs help in approaching this state by breaking the crust of ordinary perception and revealing the baffling dimensions of experience the sorcerer must deal with...
...movies fail to grasp the nature of their oppression. Kept around the Hollywood plantation for so long, surviving only on the bit parts the studio masters would throw their way, the black actors and actresses are jumping at the new demeaning major roles like starving slaves after a crust of bread: They view it as their chance to make it, not realizing that by making it on Hollywood's terms they are only tightening the shackles of bondage around their people's minds. One is forced to agree with Griffin when he says: "If not hiring some aspiring young black...