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...Defensive backs: In addition to Kelly and Cetrulo, who could play defense or offense, outstanding freshmen were Dick Manny, George Williamson (Tom Williamson's brother) and Skip Vacarello. The freshman defensive backfield was tight last fall and any one of these players could inherit the spot vacated by All-Ivy Tom Williamson...
...Enmity. As Kennedy strategists view the race, McCarthy is finished as a serious candidate, although he might still give them competition in Oregon next week and California the week after. Kennedy studiously avoids taking any pokes at McCarthy in the hope that eventually he will inherit some of the delegate strength remaining...
...affair thrives, despite burlesqued escapes from detection, and Martha evolves a plan to drown Dreyer, inherit his millions and marry Franz. "My dining room, my earrings, my silver, my Franz," she muses. Martha, in fact, is so greedy that she aborts the murder plot at the last moment because her husband remarks that he is about to fatten his estate with $100,000 from the sale of a patent for mechanical mannequins. The appearance of these "automanne-quins" raises the question of who is real and who is not-one of those Nabokovian diversions that in later novels are more...
...fuse of the post-Victorian revolution-Einstein, Freud, Lenin, Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky. But they didn't matter at all. For in Cambridge, England, 24-year-old Lytton Strachey was loudly proclaiming that he and his fellow members of the Apostles, a small society of intellectuals, were about to inherit the earth. They never quite made it, but in their later guise as the Bloomsbury Group-Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell among others-they did become the most powerful extra-Establishment gang that England has seen in this century...
...began it with four Beatitudes, three of them followed by the California rural reality. For example, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (the farm worker's average income is $1,378 a year)." And "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth (the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor has concluded that the impoverishment and misery of the rural poor is 'shocking')." Winding up his proposal, Lorenz described in detail how his already in corporated California Rural Legal Assistance agency would tackle the problem, right down...