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Fink's latest experiment is steel-gray Harvard Bridge, which is now receiving a preliminary coat of red-orange. "I'd like to paint it crimson," he said, "but M.I.T. might consider that adding insult to injury. They have never liked the idea of a bridge named after Harvard running right past their doorstep...
...Conjar and Halfback Nick Eddy-both of whom are being touted for All-America this year. To open holes for the ground game, or hold off enemy blitzes on pass plays, he has an offensive forward wall that averages 225 Ibs. per man and takes it as a personal insult whenever anybody so much as lays a grimy paw on Terry Hanratty's blue jersey. "After the Army game," recalls Terry, "I was talking to Paul Seiler, the tackle, and I said, 'Gee, Paul, I've been hit three times in three games this year...
...superior view of New York-or even of Chicago, St. Louis or San Francisco-Peoria was so long the butt of jokes because it seemed to embody that gibing epithet-provincial. The word was both an accusation and an insult, for everyone with a dictionary knew that it means "narrow, limited, insular, unsophisticated" and denotes "exclusive or overwhelming devotion to one's province." The description hardly fits modern Peoria-nor does it apply to the vast areas of the U.S. that once fell under its indictment. The cities and towns of America still maintain the pride of place that...
...Guards limit their scorn to foreigners. To Premier Chou En-lai's recent order to stop insulting and beating people, a member of the Red Guards last week replied: "Why shouldn't we insult? We shall also do some beating." The announced targets were "the rightists and revisionists" within the party, but in fact the Red Guards seemed to have declared war on the party in general. There were more reports of indiscriminate beatings of local party officials, and in one town the party leader was smeared with muck and dragged through the streets. Despite Chou...
...turtle and punches the parrot for pure cussedness-like a bad boy just begging for a beating. When he doesn't get one, he gives the old girl a lusty whack on what follows her around. Poor Pina, delighted to have a man around the house, mistakes insult for interest. But after Adolfo gratuitously sneers at her friends ("I'm a cut above the lot of you") and falls down drunk in her backyard, Pina's patience runs out, and she tells him what a useless mess...