Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fran Tarkenton was apoplectic. Sportswriter Dick Schaap had given the New York Giants' quarterback a slim volume to pass the time on the New York-Boston jet. Tarkenton flipped the first few pages and wept through the last three chapters. Now, the night before the big game, the whole damn team was reading the thing with identical results. "Listen!" he telephoned Schaap. "This book is destroying the Giants just when we're supposed to be psyched up for the Patriots...
...trial have poured into Madrid from Spain's bishops, from the Vatican, even from the commander of the Burgos military region. Some of Franco's own ministers are known to feel that the case, which is being tried in a military court and prosecuted on exceedingly slim evidence, can only lend credence to E.T.A. charges of "oppression against a people who were born to be free...
...Thoreau Gazetteer by Robert F. Stowell. Edited by William L Howarfh. 56 paqes. Princeton. $7.50. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone," said Henry David Thoreau, the most conspicuous nonconsumer in American letters. At $7.50 this slim, handsome gathering of maps, sketches and photos, which serve as a guide to Thoreau's travels as a naturalist, surveyor, dropout and poet, should please-but not greatly compromise-admirers of H.D.T.'s writings and principles...
Against Franklin and Marshall, Harvard holds a slim two point lead, with three matches left. The Crimson must win two out of the three matches involving captain Pat Coleman, 150 pounds, Richie Starr, 177 pounds, and Dave Kreis, 126 pounds...
...title seemed a paradox. The self-contradictions carry over into Cioran's life. He is not the heavy, black presence a reader might expect, but a slim, rather unformidable fellow with light blue eyes who smiles a lot. A man whom Susan Sontag has sponsored as a guru of Now happens to be the son of a Greek Orthodox priest, raised in a small Rumanian village in the Carpathian Mountains. True, he went to Paris as a graduate student of philosophy in 1937. But he is in Paris, not of it. He scrapes by as a translator and manuscript...