Word: lente
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...another of his playthings. Championship Sports, Inc. Championship must have $200,000 to promote next month's heavyweight rematch between Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson, but most of its proceeds from the first Liston-Patterson match were seized by the Internal Revenue Service. Helpfully ex-Champion Patterson has lent the outfit $125.000 to help finance his rematch...
...previous revolutionary phenomena in Soviet cultural life can also be understood as political creations. In the aftermath of Stalin's death Ilya Ehrenburg published a novel, The Thaw, which lent its name to a whole period of increased freedom of expression. An otherwise drab story, The Thaw did have some kind words for freedom of expression in art, and was quite a bold venture compared to the material produced during Stalin's last years. The story touched a pent-up longing for freedom that threatened to break forth; the regime quickly clamped down, issued a succession of reprimands to Ehrenburg...
...Lent has come...
...Tokyo's big (9,500 students) St. Paul's University, writes his Christian haiku in Japanese-and, although he knows English, leaves the translation to Gene Lehman, a Pennsylvania-born professor of chemistry at St. Paul's. Lehman's sensitive version of another verse about Lent...
...even what kind of society they'd like to have instead. This is quite unlike the student radicals of the '30's who saw very clearly what they disliked in depression-ridden America. The immediacy and clarity of their problems--like finding a job or enough to eat--lent their dissent a tangible and invigorating quality. And too, many based their opinions on various forms of socialist and communist ideology...