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...Self-appointed spokesmen in this country are curiously self-contradictory. They sneer at the Russians as professionals who traduce the Olympic ideal. Then, counting up the medals, they add, 'Maybe we ought to do the same thing.' We ought not to do the same thing. We have enough kids hired by colleges to play football or basketball or to run foot races...
...game fishermen naturally think big, and they tend to sneer at anything under 20 Ibs. But there is one little fish found in the world's warm waters that sends saltwater anglers into shivering ecstasy and rates up with the monster marlin and tuna. The name is bonefish (Albula vulpes, literally white fox). The biggest ever caught on rod and reel weighed only 19 Ibs. A ten-pounder is worth mounting in the game room, and a 15-pounder is brags forever. Baseball's retired great, Ted Williams, fishes as passionately as he played. He once landed...
...early retirement) is carrying out sweeping studies to reassess NATO force levels and basic strategy. The French have been working against the "Stikker studies." Clinging to their own massive retaliation theory, which holds that any aggression in Europe must turn into a nuclear war, De Gaulle's men sneer at Washington's concept of "balanced" conventional-and-nuclear forces to provide a "flexible response" to Red moves...
...with some small monstrosity at the end. In Our Lady of the Flowers, for example, Divine's despair is so eloquently described that the reader is moved to the kind of sympathy one feels for an aging spinster who is losing her looks. Then, with a sneer, Genet reminds everyone again that Divine is a homosexual after all. Naturally, Genet is delighted with such jokes, which maneuver the reader almost into Genet's own shoes. What criminal would not rejoice in the knowledge that all men are vicious...
Many Italian businessmen consider Bassetti a Red, sneer at his plans for Milanese redevelopment as too elaborate and socialistic. Bassetti works a 16-hour day seven days a week at his textile business and council duties, and disregards his critics. "I believe I represent something new in Italy," he says. "A businessman with a social conscience who's willing to work in public life to solve the problems of our time...