Word: underdogs
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...when a man screams for an hour and a half his voice loses its urgency, let alone its audibility. And Genet, for all his violence and class-consciousness, for all his loud identification with the poor, black, female, criminal, perverted oppressed underdog, is a thoroughly non-Revolutionary playwright. To him, all change is sham (as in the Balcony where the victorious insurrectionaries return to the brothel with a set of illusions sicker than those of the ousted eminences). Genet's underdogs do not want to seize the world and change it; they only want to reverse its order. His Blacks...
BRUNSWICK, Me., Dec. 2--The Crimson hockey team opened its season at Bowdoin tonight by beating the underdog Polar Bears 6-1. Gene Kinasewich and Tim Taylor scored two goals apiece, with Dean Alpine and Dave Morse each contributing...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 24--Bill Mares and Keith Julian scored tries and Jim Reark kicked a conversion to give the Harvard Rugby Club an 8-3 victory over Yale today. Harvard was an underdog because many of its first fifteen were unable to make the game...
...Philippines last week, 6,500,000 voters went to the polls in a national election full of surprises. Biggest surprise: the election as President, by a plurality of 600,000, of the Liberal Party's underdog, Diosdado Macapagal (see box). The victor not only defeated incumbent President Carlos Garcia, 65, but routed Garcia's well-organized Nacionalista Party machine, which has ruled through a judicious mixture of organization and money. Macapagal carried with him his running mate, ex-Senator Emmanuel Pelaez (the President and Vice President are elected separately), and Liberals also won six of the eight contests...
...this international campaign is a Jesuit theologian, Francis Lad Filas, 46, chairman of the theology department at Chicago's Loyola University. One day in 1937, Filas stumbled on an ancient German treatise on St. Joseph, and was attracted to the Virgin's husband as "an obscure underdog who didn't deserve the treatment he had received in history." In 1944 he published his first book on Joseph, The Man Nearest to Christ, and books, pamphlets, lectures and magazine articles on the saint have been pouring out of his typewriter ever since. Jesuit Filas feels that Joseph should...