Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holding a 10-7 lead in the third period, Yale turned a miracle to put the game in its favor. Senior quarterback Pat O'Brien lofted a down-the-middle toss to favorite target John Spagnola, but the Eli receiver could only tip the pass high up into...
...follows that the bishop does not favor rich viands, even for an occasional guest. A recent lunch visitor found himself dispatched to the garden to pluck a lettuce. As he rinsed it he was confronted with a choice between fish-head soup and lentil soup. (Not straight fish heads, the host explained. Those go for fertilizer. Rather a nourishing fish-head broth.) The guest chose lentils. Followed by some lettuce leaves, drenched in dill-pickle juice, and then by rolls (left by a neighbor) that the bishop turned into dessert by adding some home-grown rhubarb. Such frugality...
...still works a full day at his office in the chancery, and whatever his own fiscal condition, will leave the diocese very well run and very well off. "The great majority of the Catholics here like the poverty thing," he observes, though he notes that some, those who favor "triumphalism" (a prideful attitude about the church and its secular image), still feel his eccentric pursuit of poverty is misplaced in a bishop. Topel is indeed much loved and admired for his unworldly show, but not all of his views sit easily with members of the diocese. In a column written...
Perkins said he voted in favor of inviting Brustein to join the department. "He (Brustein) is distinguished in the academic world and a good critic," he added...
Morton W. Bloomfield, Porter Professor of English, said yesterday he voted to invite Brustein to join the department, but added he was "not necessarily in favor of Brustein coming to the Loeb...