Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left-wing populism of a Fred Harris, but he has yet to see a poll "sophisticated enough to say where the uncommitted voters are." Wherever they are, Mathias feels the independents will soon spurn both parties. Thus he predicts that a third force in 1976 or later "will bear fruit, and it is very important to measure the dimensions...
Because of this attitude toward the Holocaust--one that acknowledges the scope of its horror and its scars, but one that also recognizes the fact that it is in the past--Bashevis Singer can bring his memory to bear on the very culture the Holocaust helped to destroy. And this is where he's at his very best, when he's describing his first forage outside his home town in the Old Country ("A Tutor in the Village"); or telling about the nicknames given to people in Polish villages, names like Haim Bellybutton, Yekel Cake, Sarah Gossip, Gittel Duck...
...cynical Crimson writer noted with tongue in cheek last year that unless partisan onlookers with less at stake can scarcely refuse to pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to insure the survival and success of Harvard's football team." Seth Kupferberg, the author, may have been speaking ironically, but unfortunately there are numerous administrators, alumnae, and miscellaneously-allied Harvardians who feel sincerely ready to pay any price. The Yale game is a big event, to say the least, in terms of effort, commitment, and perhaps most importantly, money. While...
Those who witnessed it will never forget it, and those who missed it will have to bear hearing the story told and retold every time Harvard plays Yale. Few finishes, in any brand of football, will ever reach the emotional pitch and tension of the 1974 version of The Game. Unless the 1975 version does...
...embittered disenchantment. It is more of a documentary than a play. In the mandatory "confessional" bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1974, five representational figures address monologues to the audience. They never at any time speak to or relate to each other, except that they all bear the scars of the '60s wars...