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...have always liked the nickname "Crimson"--simple, different, and connoting none of the aggressive, animalistic traits so often associated with sports. The University is fortunate that its nickname fuses understatement with tradition. While "Big Green" is a bit awkward, it is certainly more pleasing than the proposed alternative. Dartmouth should just accept that it is not going to have a resonant moniker like "The rambling wreck of Georgia Tech." Give it up, folks, or you may find yourselves the butt of jokes that aren't in good...
...must have the clarity of vision to see the difference between what is essential and what is merely desirable, and then the courage to bring our Government back under control." Reagan even quoted an attack on Big Government from Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 campaign, though that was an awkward reach even for a candidate striving for Democratic votes...
There are more awkward juxtapositions. Camelot is sometimes historical pageant, sometimes operetta. The language veers from the chivalric mode to slangy vernacular. Things begin in a comedic vein with the babbling buffoonery of Merlyn (James Valentine) and the blimpish insularity of King Pellinore (Paxton Whitehead), and then turn somber with the threatened burning of Guenevere at the stake...
...sweating. "I want you Larry Holmes, I want you!" The words are forced. Thinking hard, trying to keep the attention of the man who controls the cameras for ABC, Ali moves towards Holmes for a direct confrontation. The ring apron is only 18 inches wide; Ali is awkward in his attempts to draw nearer to his ex-sparring partner. He continues to shout, but the words are slurred. Brain damage, a British physician has speculated. Ali almost slips and has to grab the top tope of the ring. He frowns. He knows ten million television watchers have seen him lose...
...such industrious achievers left him well behind modernism; he wrote about men in public roles at a time when most serious fiction was burrowing ever deeper down the rabbit hole of self. Critics complained, irrelevantly, that Snow was not Proust and, accurately, that his prose was often pedestrian and awkward. While he never pretended to be an elegant stylist. Snow had an ear for the telling phrase; two of the titles he corned for the "Strangers and Brothers" series, The New Men and Corridors of Power, quickly became common currency...