Word: outwits
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...self-conscious and sometimes absurd adolescent, but he is also a doomed human being of special sensitivity?not merely special, as Salinger might say, but Special. As such, he sets the theme for almost everything Salinger has written since Catcher. Most men know how to ignore, suppress or outwit the occasional suspicion that the world is really not to be borne?but the young, the mad. and the saints do not know the trick. To varying degrees, most Salinger characters, includinging those in Franny and Zooey, belong in these three categories. Strangely enough, the young, slightly mad saints are also...
...moderates stayed on the school board through STOP (Stop This Outrageous Purge). In New Orleans, they faced up to integration with SOS (Save Our Schools). In Atlanta this fall, moderates will do likewise through HOPE (Help Our Public Education) and OASIS (Organizations Assisting Schools in September)-if they can outwit GUTS (Georgians Unwilling to Surrender...
...rather heartsick to see the same old TIME drums beat reverently for the same old tycoons who are agile enough to outwit other tycoons. What difference does it make to us in a world where we wish to save our children from bombs and anarchy whether or not the Murchison types have more or less money? Can all the Murchisons together equal one Jonas Salk, for instance...
...frontier individualism, and his legerdemain and quick gun that often forced the coming of law and order. Gambling has also produced some of the most colorful characters in American history. There was Dr. Bennett, a riverboat gambler who invented thimblerig (which one has the pea?) and could still outwit the best of them at 70; Elijah Skagg, who became a millionaire by training youths in his shady science and sending them across the country in teams. There was Madame Mustache of Nevada City, Calif., who ran a square game with free champagne for all, made men remove their hats when...
...pastime at which he earned his living for two years as a bridge expert on the London Sunday Times. He understood, said the marquess - rather like a man searching for a kind word to say about cannibalism - that "it's not considered immoral, or even bad form, to outwit one's opponents at bridge." The "completely outwitted" white settlers could only conclude that "it was the nationalist African leaders whom the Colonial Secretary regarded as his partners, and the white community and loyal Africans that he regarded as his opponents...