Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particularly in the passages dealing with a boy's reaction to World War II, it rings as flat as a shofar blown by a gentile. Listening to a radio report on the Normandy invasion, Reuven thinks miserably of the "broken vehicles and dead soldiers" on the beaches. No base ball-playing American kid-Jewish or otherwise-thought for a moment of bodies on that glorious day; he imagined brave jut-jawed soldiers in spotless khakis charging through the cringing, craven "Nazzy" lines...
...rest of his teammates don't seem to be with it. Against Dartmouth Monday Quaker Kenny Dunn got a base hit -- and then was suckered by the old standby, the hidden ball trick...
Once again this weekend Harvard will have to do without spunky second base man Nelly Houston. The former Rhode Island Schoolboy star had his nose broken by a Tufts pitch: he will be replaced by Dick Manchester...
...manuscript is peppered, for example, with snide, venemous, often fantastic references to both the city of Dallas and the person of Lee Harvey Oswald. Dallas, Manchester argues, epitomizes all the noisome features of American life which buttress lawlessness and unreasoning violence. Because the city was Oswald's home base, Manchester constantly seems to imply that Dallas supported and encouraged Oswald's instability and volatility--that the wickedness of the city had something to do with the wickedness of the individual. But the argument is never made explicit. Quite the opposite: we are led to believe that if Oswald had lived...
...writing this memorandum have not been specifically involved in the anti-war movement for some time. Our common criticism of it has been that it is too preoccupied with middle-class protest activity. This activity, while encouraging in some respects, has failed to educate and organize a powerful base even in its own constituency; much less has it established links with the working-class and low-income people who also object to the war. Many of us have been working through community and labor organizing and related activities to build a base among these people. We feel now, however that...