Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best women's lacrosse team in the Ivy League found itself trailing the Ancient Eight's worst team by two quick goals yesterday afternoon in Ithaca...
...since a 10-8 loss at Princeton more than two years ago has the Crimson lost an Ancient Eight contest, and yesterday's win upped Harvard's 1985 Ivy mark...
Yesterday on Stevenson Field at Brown the nation's eighth ranked Harvard squad had little trouble winning its 25th Ivy contest in its last 27 Ancient Eight outings...
...like the Zionist settlers who began to return to the holy land more than a century ago and the Arabs they encountered upon arrival, Carter's two historical planes achieve at best an uneasy co-existence. The juxtaposition of ancient history and the most recent developments would be difficult under the best of circumstances. But in The Blood of Abraham, Carter's tendency to mix bureaucratic jargon with country-style religious musing only aggravates the difficulties inherent in this approach...
...With detail worthy of Plains. George's most famous Sunday school teacher, Carter devotes five pages in the book's introduction to a recap of the book of Genesis. Similarly, he describes how, during his first visit to Jerusalem he awoke before dawn to "catch a flavor" of the ancient city as if "might have been two thousands years earlier when Jesus strolled the same streets." For Carter juxtaposing ancient history and yesterday's news is essential. But for readers of The Blood of Abraham, his shifts in tone and style are just plain confusing...