Word: favor
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Wilfred Figueroa, a butcher from the Bronx, recently spent what he called "his first and only day" as Santa overlooking Rockefeller Center, soliciting donations for the Volunteers of America. The stint was a favor for a friend who couldn't do it that day. Figueroa explains, as he sits in costume ringing a bell while early holiday shoppers walk by. Doing this is fun, though it's bit cold," he says. "But this is something people should do at least once." He notes, however, that there are some restrictions Santas have to abide by. "I tried to catch a smoke...
Still, "perceptions" of TV dominance, erroneous or not, do have consequences. Bogart thinks it wrong for newspapers, particularly declining ones, to copy television's emphasis on personalities and features, to cut news items to car-radio brevity, or to favor routine "chicken dinner" local coverage. Major stories of national and international importance, he argues, have most impact on newspaper readers...
...last work of its editor, killed in a motorcycle accident 2½ months ago. For the most part shunning pieces that appeared in major periodicals ("all knife-flash, no blood"). Novelist John Gardner also sidelines such contemporary masters as John Updike, Donald Barthelme and Ann Beattie in favor of relative newcomers who display "a new seriousness...
...violent government retaliation. In 1960, police fired on an unarmed crowd of anti-pass demonstrators in Sharpeville. They killed 67 Africans within minutes, shooting many in the back. The ANC was banned, and its leadership went underground. It was only then that leaders reluctantly abandoned peaceful resistance in favor of sabotage against property...
With the score 95-36 in favor of the Crimson, you would hardly expect to find the members of the Harvard men's indoor track team lining the ITT track cheering at the top of their lungs during the last event...