Word: zeno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind Gilbert came Texas Ranger Zeno Smith, in cowboy boots, shirt, hat-and with bugged recordings to back up Gilbert's story. The Rangers had listened in while one Buck Owens, ex-Teamster bullyboy turned Ranger informer, tossed leading questions at San Antonio Teamster Business Manager Raymond Shafer in motel room conversations. Sample exchange, splashed with BEEPs to blot out the profanity...
...best thing about it all is the character of the professor, who puddles around quoting Zeno and being abstract, and turns out to be perceptive even about one or two of the details of everyday existence. Sex, for instance. His bland assertion of delightfully simple and complex statements is masterful...
...modern tables of sines. But to many Greeks, mathematics was also a game. They were the first to notice that adding ten consecutive odd numbers, beginning with i, is the same as multiplying ten times ten, and that adding 20 such numbers is the same as squaring 20. Zeno also pretended to prove arithmetically that if a tortoise got one-tenth of a mile head start, Achilles, running ten times as fast, could apparently never overtake...
...teams from competing schools try to beat each other to the punch in answering such questions as: 1) Who was the head of state that the Roundheads beheaded? 2) What 17th century philosopher can be associated with a whale? 3) In ancient Greece, who could call Xanthippus "Dad" and Zeno "Teacher"? 4) Nellie Bly was the "other woman" in a famous triangle-name the couple she broke...
...slow and bright as dust from a celestial censer. The swordplay between Romeo and Tybalt flashes through Siena's gracious Piazza del Duomo. When Romeo in the last act beats with unavailing hands at the church door, he strikes the great bronze portal, green and inscrutable, of San Zeno Maggiore at Verona...