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...returned to the Chronicle eight years later for $38,000. In the last 25 years more than a score of rivals have tried, and failed, to match his drawing power. The newest man to make the effort is Glasgow-born Bill Hall, 42, the Examiner's glib former Sunday editor, who unintentionally fast-talked himself into the job by complaining that the paper could not overtake the Chronicle without someone to rival Caen. "It's just like the Army," mused Hall afterward. "You complain about the food, so they make you mess officer...
...guys ever praise anybody or anything without running down somebody else? This time, via the Lombardi story, you overinflate football by the glib expedient of deflating basketball, tennis, hockey, boxing and baseball. Talk about a slow-motion bore: huddle, slap, squat, shift, squat, pass, incomplete, whistle, penalty, time out, substitution, huddle, slap, squat, shift, squat, pass, incomplete, whistle, penalty, substitution, huddle, slap, squat, shift, pass, fumble, gun, final score: 0-0-and the fans could be all the way to Chicago by jet, and return...
Born. To John Charles Daly, 48, glib host on CBS's What's My Line?, and Virginia Warren Daly, 34, daughter of Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren: their first child, a boy; in Manhattan...
NEWMAN'S approach to Eddington is not an extreme example of his distressingly glib judgments in Science Sensibility. The point is typified by a remark in one of the earlier essays: "I agree entirely with Bertrand that intellectually Pythagoras was one of the most important men that ever lived, both when he was wise and when he was unwise.'" We're by now with the notion that and unwisdom generate scientific progress. But it is one thing to say that one scientist's mistakes send another in the right direction, and quite another that unwisdom in a wayward scientist presents...
...authenticity of a Durer woodcut; and the entry of the flagellants is surely one of the most appalling scenes ever filmed. But Bergman's Gothic allegory will also trouble audiences philosophically, for it retains its symbolic ambiguity to the end and will not permit a facile interpretation or glib dismissal of any sort. For the Eliot House Anglicans as for the Adams agnostics, then--as well as for all the peculiar intermediate species between--The Seventh Seal can serve as a needed tonic, by raising once again the religious question in all its jagged complexity; like Bergman's knight...