Word: avoiders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard loses, it will enter the Yale game with a 3-5 record two straight defeats, and the prospect of a desperate fight to avoid a tie for seventh place, And if Brown loses, the Bruins will face a final game with Columbia for the usual stakes-possession of the Ivy League cellar...
OPHULS takes us out of La Roude with a feeling for the characters whose precision excludes sentimental excess. He describes them in their gestures, their social situations, their physical settings, by the clarity of his dramatic and visual style. But it is impossible to avoid feeling regret for them. The control Ophuls maintains over this feeling makes La Ronde a perfect work. Never does he impose an attitude or an emotion upon his audience. His style rather becomes a persuasive totality which reveals itself to us as art while showing us particular loves...
Ever since the prospects for Clement Haynsworth's confirmation to the Supreme Court began to fade, key Republican Senators have tried to persuade the Nixon Administration to withdraw the nomination and avoid an embarrassing, party-splitting showdown. Nixon has refused. Mustering every scintilla of White House prestige and pressure, he has sought to win over recalcitrant Senators, but with little success. As a result, Nixon now faces the biggest defeat of his young Administration...
...last year in Bloom v. Illinois. In that case, the high court ruled that a man who faces a substantial sentence (six months in federal trials) on a contempt charge has a right to have his case heard by a jury. As critics saw it, Hoffman thought he could avoid the jury requirement in Scale's case by handing down 16 separate sentences-none of them as long as six months...
Brian Dowline, Yale's fabled quarterback is the best athlete Hurley has played against "His ability to scramble enable him to avoid eating the ball, and eased harsh in our secondary. He wasn't all that impressive on film, but when you had to go out and play against him, it was a whole different story." he said...