Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brazil, a country with a military government that knows exactly how free the press should be, nine cartoonists and editors of the satirical weekly O Pas-quim ("The Rag"), have all been in prison for over a month. Uncharged. The tabloid has gone on publishing, blandly stating on its front page that it has been "completely automated." Last week Brazilian police tired of the joke, suspended "The Rag," then lifted the ban without explanation. The staffers remain in jail; "The Rag" remains "automated...
...N.C.A.A. record set last year by North Texas State's Steve Ramsey. A shrewd field general, Plunkett has a sharp eye for reading defenses, and his strapping size (6 ft. 3 in., 210 Ibs.) allows him to shake off tacklers as though they were so many rag dolls. "Plunkett is the best drop-back passer I've seen in college football," says U.C.L.A. Coach Tommy Prothro. "He has real strength and good speed. If you go all out to blitz him, he'll eat you alive." Adds University of Oregon Coach Jerry Frei, a 33-10 victim...
...funny, funny play, and you'll probably laugh yourself silly. "The Vatican Rag" has long been one of my favorite spoof songs, and The Greatest Musical Ever Sung shares (if only fitfully) much of its vigor. If you still take your eucharist seriously, go to the Prudential or something; if not, there's still time to hear the Pharisees do a splendid barbershop quartet. Yuks per minute, its a lot easier going than Levi-Strauss...
...number of Princeton women intended to write advertising copy for their candidates. Most of these coeds (Bang to PLUG.) found the two week period a bit trying, for they were not able in that short time span to gather enough material to create a good advertising spread. (Play "Tiger Rag," then jump to BALL...
...undisciplined romantics who disdain all authority. Yet he borrowed some of their ideas. In words that Marighella might have used as a model, Lenin urged revolutionaries "to arm themselves with anything they can lay hands on (a rifle, a gun, a bomb, a knife, a stick, a kerosene-drenched rag to set fire with, a rope or a rope ladder, a spade to build barricades, barbed wire, nails against cavalry, etc.). To start training for war immediately, by means of practical operations: killing a spy, blowing up a police station, robbing a bank to provide funds for the uprising...