Word: manned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Crimson basketball team plays Navy this afternoon at 3 p.m. in the IAB, it must contend with the Mid-shipmen's tenacious man-to-man defense and their winning tradition against Harvard teams...
...appeals to the human imagination." The book, moreover, provides an unprcs-sured look at the tastes and concerns that Borges began to develop as a child browsing in his father's well-stocked library in Buenos Aires, and an insight into the grotesque, haunting and often touching forms man has made of his fears and infatuations...
...effect, Borges creates literary logarithms that raise base ideas to exhilarating heights. Funes the Memorious posits a man crippled by a memory so perfect that he must devise a system of enumeration to handle the infinite series of indiscriminate recollections that play on his mind. Funes is incapable of generalized thought because, as Borges explains, "to think is to forget differences." In The Aleph, omniscience takes the form of a small spot of light where everything going on in the world can be seen simultaneously from every angle. And in an imaginative murder mystery called The Garden of Forking Paths...
...machismo, and an elegant pared-down style, may be Borges' most obvious literary attractions. But it is a profound charm and personal modesty that make him endearing in person. His face lights up when anyone praises his work; yet he habitually conveys the deep stillness of a man with few illusions about himself or the world. He also conveys sweetness and wisdom, those refinements of perception that sometimes accompany old age. "Beside real short story writers," he says, "my stories hardly exist." Then he adds an overly modest bit of self-appraisal: "As Latin American writers go, perhaps they...
...turns out, are also bad debts. His wife Ann, sexually and emotionally little more than an object of Freeman's consumption, has left him. His son Caxton, a conniving p.r. flack for a top political candidate, helps support his father-primarily because of the embarrassment the old man could cause by showing up in Washington. Freeman's cousin Gerrish, a money-mad but bumbling lawyer, acts as an unwilling buffer between the members of this emotionally bankrupt group...