Word: americas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tenure at Texas, the Longhorns have compiled a won-lost-tied record of 103-28-4. They have won five Southwest Conference titles and one national championship, and have appeared in nine post-season bowl games. Royal was named Coach of the Year by the Football Writers Association of America in 1961 and 1963; he is the only coach ever to win that honor twice. He may be on his way to a third title. Recently his boys whipped conference archrival Southern Methodist 45-14 in Dallas' Cotton Bowl to bring their 1969 record to 6-0. That victory...
...Tatum had little trouble persuading the slight (5 ft. 11 in., 158 lbs.) quarterback to come home and try his hand at college ball. In 1947, Royal's sophomore year, Tatum was replaced by a youngster named Bud Wilkinson. Under Wilkinson's guidance Royal was named All-America quarterback in 1949. But the pro scouts considered him small, and he drifted into coaching. He held seven different jobs in eight years and eventually wound up as head coach at the University of Washington in 1956. Then he jumped to Texas...
...there is something wrong with his politics"), Clement won Tennessee's governorship in 1952 at the age of 32; two years later he was easily reelected. A moderate in the diehard South, he rose to national prominence as the Democratic Convention keynoter in 1956 with his "How long, America, O how long?" speech, ripping into "Vice-Hatchetman" Nixon. A third term as Tennessee's Governor came in 1962, but then Clement's star began to wane. In 1964 and 1966 he failed in bids for the U.S. Senate...
Emlen's test subject was the indigo bunting, a little songbird and prodigious commuter that flies as far as 6,000 miles a year between Canada and Central America. Emlen put the birds in a planetarium and studied their reaction to fall star patterns. To his surprise, the birds seemed to ignore the artificial heavens on the planetarium dome. Outside it was spring, and the birds always tried to head north...
...appears to be one in which language has been surrendered as a possibility; we are silent at films, in music, among ourselves. We are living in silence. So it's no longer surprising that poetry, like our voices, has turned inward, listening to its own hermetic cadences. Poets in America, having no choice, have either sealed themselves within the tombs of universities, or become exiles in their own land, living far away from the sources of anxiety. To write is to survive...