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...special consultant for a national youth-fitness program, President Kennedy tapped the University of Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson, 44. While filling the unpaid advisory post, Wilkinson will continue as athletic director and football coach at Oklahoma, where in an unsuccessful 1960 season, his 14-year monopoly on the Big Eight title was finally busted. When asked about the 1961 prospects of his Sooner eleven, the new special consultant, as trim as in his days as a Minnesota quarterback, assured the press: "We will be physically fit but technically incapable...
...that special form of anxiety which is guilt), but almost any innocent, everyday act: the limp or overhearty handshake, the second pack of cigarettes or the third martini, the forgotten appointment, the stammer in midsentence, the wasted hour before the TV set, the spanked child, the new car unpaid...
...other miracle involves the saintly character of his mother, Minnie O'Connor, who from the time she left a church-run orphanage at 14 had known nothing but the life of a slavey, sometimes unpaid, in households selected by the nuns for Catholic respectability rather than the real virtue of charity. In telling the life of this simple, devout soul, her son avoids the curse of self-pity that afflicted even such masterly performers as Samuel Butler, Rousseau and Stendhal, not to speak of a swarm of modern confessionists. After writing his mother's life-partly, of course...
...literary salon whose major figures are an unpublished poet and a jobless journalist. Slam-bang into his nerveless world crashes a huge, careless taxidermist, a man who is physically powerful and morally indifferent. He moves in on the printer, pays no rent, entertains the town whores, and laughs his unpaid, gentle landlord into inconsequence. Just when the reader is beginning to ask why the mild printer has to take all this, Author Narayan-himself a Hindu, a vegetarian, and a small, mild fellow-shows that the meek have their own kind of strength...
...cooperating teachers," who supervise the practice period, are unpaid volunteers who vary greatly in ability. Moreover, very few practice teachers are ever required to do additional work, regardless of the quality of their performances, the report charged. It noted that the required practice teaching time is often as little as 45 days...