Word: beating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel like orphans, we feel at odds with ourselves and particularly with this war that has grown out of us (do not make it into a mistake), and that we wish to disown a part of ourselves. The sight of the Capitol does not make our heart skip a beat anymore, if it ever did. Nixon on television does not frighten us, but only saddens us further. Our communal alienation may also be our hope, but orphans with no place to go may soon become Weathermen...
...Crimson freshmen felt particularly let down by their IC4A performance. They were fourth, better than the seventh which. Harvard took in 1968, but they had the material to beat everyone. The Yardlings were probably shaken by the fact that they were not able to run as a group as they have been able to do all season...
Holy secularity was becoming wholly secular and the effect scared the lot of us. Not that we were afraid of incarnating Christ-the Holy Spirit beat the theologians to that one-but that the search for God's immanence could lead to His entrapment. Once He got in He might be trapped in (remember Vietnam?). Or, and this is the other possibility which hurt Protestantism badly, pushing Him outside the domed-in-world (as Ficino did in Renaissance Italy) to work things out for ourselves would leave little room for Transcendental values. The alternatives were apparent to many in "academe...
What was absurd even to think about last September happened all too realistically at Providence last Saturday. Brown overrunning a Crimson defense at will and stopping its offense cold, beat Harvard, 24-17, and left any chance Harvard had of salvaging a winning season lying shattered on the turf at Brown Stadium...
...told me to get in the car. "Are you gonna beat the shit out of me or give me a ride?" I asked. His girlfriend, looking embarrassed. told me not to worry, and I got in for the last leg of my trip. Kevin, the driver, is in the Army and has been ordered to serve in Washington this weekend...