Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coupled with the Harvard loss, Princetons's defeat means that Cornell and Yale are the only Ivy teams to sport unbeaten records. However, none of today's action has any bearing on the Ivy race, which will resume next Saturday with two games, Princeton-Brown and Penn-Columbia...
...undefeated (1-0) Crimson football team plays at Soldiers field today for the first time this season, taking on UMASS at 1 p.m. But, not all eyes will focus on the gridiron this afternoon, as three other varsity teams will be in action, two on home turf...
...returning to their classes in the fall have met the hostility of parents unalterably opposed to their presence, assaults from their peers, and the apparent apathy of elected officials. Kevin White's administration has apparently accepted a certain level of violence as the price to pay to avoid substantive action to solve Boston's racial problems. Five years after Garrity's order was promulgated, students, parents and politicians alike have been forced to accept the inevitability of racial violence...
...unceasing herky-jerk action of Passion Play hints at Kosinski's attempt to harness to the novel the devices of another medium--television. This is the foremost example of the easy-to-follow, one-character plot ridden with sex and violence. The novel as a popular art form may soon smother in the voluminous fluff of television and cinema. Kosinski senses this and innovatively adopts many of the devices, the timing and pace, of TV and cinema--hence the accessibility of his novels. What's remarkable is that he manages this without in any way compromising his literary integrity...
...seriously threatened by the furor over Soviet combat troops in Cuba. While senators, with next year's elections in mind, bicker over the 2-3000 Soviet combat troops in Cuba, SALT II recedes into the background of American foreign policy until President Carter takes what Congress considers corrective action...