Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though schools are required to house and entertain visiting athletes "on a scale comparable to that of normal student life," the rule is widely ignored. Richard Washington, now a freshman basketball player at U.C.L.A., visited half a dozen schools as a high school senior in Portland, Ore. "They flash you bills when you get there," he reports. "You get an expensive room, a player takes you to a top restaurant and fixes you up with a couple of girls. It's really nice." Students who travel to Las Vegas for a look at the University of Nevada...
President Bok announces that after 32 months in office, he has finally determined that he is not Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology. "But I don't think my record and my conscience can be fully clear," Bok adds, "until I manifest my willingness to entertain George Wald's identity compatible with my usual personality...
...night, Ford usually brings work home and goes through it while glancing up at TV (favorite programs: Cannon, McMillan and Wife). Only rarely do the Fords entertain at home or go out to eat. When they do, they usually eat seafood at Washington's Jockey Club or Sea Catch Restaurant. A dedicated weight watcher, Ford swims in his heated pool twice daily from March to November. Frequently he skips lunch, or has a dish of cottage cheese with ketchup in his office. He weighs 201 Ibs., just four more than during his football days at the University of Michigan...
.../clown figure, valiantly struggling against innumerable forces and the temptations of the world. Because this world is often overpowering, he is occasionally forced to stop it, in order to escape temporarily any nightmare or turmoil he brings down on himself. We initially see him attempting--and failing--to entertain an imagined dream audience, then lapsing further into a fantasy version of the real world in which he is forced into a shotgun marriage with Typically English Evie. While he is working his way up the executive ladder of success, we follow Littlechap on his business trips around the world...
...better showing in the Ivy League than he did last year. In that ill-fated campaign the Crimson squad came in last in the league, losing several close decisions. This year, the fencers will have to contend with perennially tough Penn and Columbia before they can entertain hopes of moving into the first division...