Word: astraye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 38 seconds left and Harvard trailing 74-73, Sedlacek lofted a long one which went astray, but McClung drew a foul when he grabbed the rebound and deadlocked the game with a free throw. A few seconds later he was fouled again and calmly sank two shots which put the game...
Although agreeing with Fround that the cases had been exaggerated, Mark de Wolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, charge that the Supreme Court had "led the nation astray" by basing its opinion on the Constitutional clause barring the establishment of religion. "At the heart of the problem is the question of religious liberty, not establishment," he said...
...Jewish idiom is unfailingly exact. ("We didn't starve, but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.") But the very quality that makes him an original talent-his feeling for the expressive, flaringly emotional reaches of the Jewish temperament-sometimes leads him astray, causing him to inject into a purely naturalistic story the stylized emotional patterns of the Jewish folk tale, told and retold through generations of racial experience...
...astray, And they have left their God, to follow
RECORDS BACH: THE SIX PARTITAS (Columbia). Musical paleontologists are invariably scandalized by Glenn Gould's approach to Bach: he plays the sublime master with more love of the living than respect for the dead. Such inspired impishness occasionally leads him astray, but here his genius conspires with his artistry, matching a deep rapport with the spirit of the music with a lofty regard for the voice of the piano...