Word: sage
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...victories (more of those than anyone else); a farmer's son from Arkansas, a wrestler of carnival bears, "the other end" to Don Hutson at Alabama, the other coach to Adolph Rupp at Kentucky, the scourge of Texas A&M, the sage of Alabama, the supreme being of college football. George Blanda, his quarterback at Kentucky 34 years ago, was the first to note the resemblance. "This must be what God looks like," Blanda said. Bryant's face is brown and as rutted as the erosion of a dried-up riverbed. Under his Henry Higgins hat, the fire...
State, Russell Sage...
Perhaps Miss Manners would have done better to limit her advice to the sage guidelines passed to her by her Uncle Henry, the kind of relative who pulls you aside at family gatherings for "talks. "Henry's words were sufficient: "I. Don't. 2. Be sure not to forget to. "The rest is up to individual interpretation...
...Cambodia, Namibia, Chad, Ethiopia-Somalia, Guatemala and El Salvador?were joined by two more. The coincidence is noteworthy. After the invasion of Lebanon, an editorial in the New York Times declared: "There is no point wailing about what might have been." Possibly. But that palliative countermands all the earlier sage advice proffered by that selfsame publication, and by this one and by every other voice that lobs words against tanks. The P.L.O. could have forsworn terrorism with words. Britain, Argentina and Israel could have negotiated with words. All took other ways. That may be the abiding basis for dissatisfaction with...
...accomplished photographer, waited calmly at home. "I figured it was the same old story-helping a man get to the top, and then he wants other things," she says. "But my negative feelings lasted only a little while." The actor's absence was short as well. Sons Sage Moonblood, 6, whose birth date his parents claim was astrologically planned (Stallone once wrote under the name Q. Moonblood), and Sergio, 3, helped bring him home...