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Nobody ever accused Breslin of running scared, but now that he is turning to writing books, he does fret about his own lack of discipline. Not about his background, though. "I'm not smart, but then you tell me who is. I shoulda gone to an Ivy League college, then I coulda lied like the rest of them jerks wearing the striped ties." He seems overly proud of his limited tastes in literature. "Portnoy's Complaint! I don't read nothin' that ain't written in English...
...Southern Cal's O. J. Simpson, whom Ohio State will meet in the Rose Bowl, Hayes professes not to fret. Rather, he plans to spend the next few weeks visiting the homes of promising high school prospects, searching as always for that "quality kid." Says he: "I can spot that good home as soon as I walk in the door. I don't mean the furnishings and the money. I mean whether a kid is loved and whether there is discipline in the home...
...first opened in Manhattan. And while The Misanthrope turns out well indeed, much of the credit belongs to Moliere's writing and Poet Richard Wilbur's lithe translation into conversational rhymed couplets-plus the wigs and swords and period couture that actors love to strut and fret with...
...brutal hallmark of the most prosperous and most powerful nation on earth." Added Britain's Lord Harlech, a longtime friend of Kennedy: "Violence in the U.S. has become a world scandal." France, which came within an inch of violent collapse last month, found time in its recovery to fret over U.S. government: "America dreamed of a government of judges," said Paris' Le Monde, "but it suffers the law of violent people." Said Combat of Paris: "America is mad." The Times of India, where politically inspired mob action is not uncommon, found something "radically wrong" with a society that...
...fossil-fuel burning, for example, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen about 14% since 1860. According to Ecologist Lamont C. Cole, man is thus reducing the rate of oxygen regeneration, and Cole envisions a crisis in which the amount of oxygen on earth might disastrously decline. Other scientists fret that rising carbon dioxide will prevent heat from escaping into space. They foresee a hotter earth that could melt the polar icecaps, raise oceans as much as 400 ft., and drown many cities. Still other scientists forecast a colder earth (the recent trend) because man is blocking sunlight with ever...