Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between the A.C.C. and outside teams. This year, the A.C.C. is 75-15 against nonconference foes, a .833 winning percentage, which is better than that of any other major conference. Just ask Notre Dame how tough the A.C.C. is. First the No. 1 Irish lost to Maryland, then they beat North Carolina State by only a point and State was last in the league. This year, A.C.C. teams are 8 and 5 against the non-A.C.C. teams ranked in U.P.I.'s Top 20 last week...
...have logged long hours doing manual labor and running the streets. Even Headon, whose father was a headmaster and whose mother was a teacher, says, "I used to steal a lot and run with a gang," and figures he would be in stir today if he had not beat out 205 other drummers at a Clash audition. Out of the pieces of a shared precarious existence, the Clash has fashioned music of restless anger and hangman's wit, rediscovered and redirected the danger at the heart of all great rock. - Jay Cocks
...piece was Henry Brant's Orbits, subtitled "a spatial ritual." After Conductor Gerhard Samuel's final beat of the baton, the composer rose from his seat at the organ to acknowledge a standing ovation...
...Fourth floor ... children's wear ... handbags ... maternity ... pianos ... Ginsberg in the tearoom." What's this? Howling Allen Ginsberg, aging (52) poet-priest of'50s beat and '60s yippiedom reading his work in a Brooklyn department store? "Why not?" replies Ginsberg, as he prepares to recite such poems as Dope Fiend Blues, Punk Rock and Plutonian Ode. His familiar curl-fringed bald pate and face set off by silver granny glasses, he explains: "I get a lot more older people now, especially little old Jewish ladies. But I like a varied audience-little old ladies, homosexuals, weirdos...
...letters is high, not only for what she said about her own works but for her perceptive comments on others. She admired Graham Greene, with reservations: "What he does, I think, is try to make religion respectable to the modern unbeliever by making it seedy." Her comment on the Beat Generation writers was pithy and devastating...