Word: totting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Orotund. With the exception of a few local reporters, the coverage on most stations proved as numbing as six hours of Gilllgan's Island reruns. The tot boards endlessly reeled off numbers that were rendered ciphers by the landslide. Reporters talked aimlessly with such pundits as Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. Late in the evening, even Eric Sevareid was at a loss for his specialty, the orotund, empty phrase. In desperation he began to pick the brain of Luigi Barzini, author of The Italians and a dilettantish follower of McGovern's campaign...
...happier mood suffuses a stroll the grandmother takes with her tiny grandson. "What will you be when you grow up, and where will I be then?" she questions the oblivious tot, with a wistful but optimistic view of the future. Her strongest link with the future, although she successfully hides it from both children and husband alike, is a sure fore-knowledge of her own approaching death. This is to be her first and last visit to Tokyo. But she never lets her intuition become evident; she cannot lower herself by making her children feel guilty, though they have sinned...
...Scoring TD XPT FG TOT Bjorklund, Prin. 3 2 0 20 DeMars, Har. 3 0 0 18 Bonner, Brown...
...Brown 45 153 Marinaro, Cornell 30 144 DeMars, Harvard 23 132 Snick'ger, Prince. 22 109 Passing Att. Comp. Yds. Jackson, Columbia 29 18 287 Zink, Brown 42 18 187 Plummer, Prince. 28 13 163 Pfeil, Yale 17 12 139 Flynn, Prince. 25 10 106 Scoring TD FG XP TOT Bjorklund, Prince. 3 0 2 20 Bonner, Brown 3 0 0 18 DeMars, Harvard 2 0 0 12 Sefcik, Columbia 2 0 0 12 Pending No. Avg. Pinto, Penn 7 41.4 Bjorklund, Prince. 13 40.4 Nottingham, Yale 2 39.0 Stoeckel, Harvard 7 38.4 Colby, Brown 12 38.3 Scoring...
...coming of Christ; and with the problem of regulating sex." But like an old man whose sight is going, the great critic prefers to peer close round himself, to take an avuncular interest in pretty Mary Pcolar, the housewife who teaches him Hungarian, to listen to old Albert Grubel tot up local car-crash victims. The brain is still inquisitive, the descriptive skill sure as ever, but the time for exploring seems to be past. #183; Charles Elliot