Word: bendings
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...that the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame deign to send any of their teams to play Harvard. But it was just such a show-down that drew a season-high 40 fans to Blodgett Pool last night, as the Crimson water polo team dumped the vaunted men from South Bend...
...high school girls seem to acquire in the fall: "As you walk beside them after school, they tighten their arms about their books and bend their heads forward to give a more flattering attention to your words, and in the little intimate area thus formed, carved into the clear air by an implicit crescent, there is a complex fragrance woven of tobacco, powder, lipstick, rinsed hair, and that perhaps imaginary and certainly elusive scent that wool, whether in the lapels of a jacket or the nap of a sweater, seems to yield when the cloudless fall sky like the blue...
Even when these enthusiasts do bend to the current pressures for law-and-order, they tend to do it in their own dreamy way. At Bard, where President Leon Botstein decided last year that all students should attend an intensive three-week workshop on how to think and write, the students pondered such questions as the nature of justice. What color is justice? What shape is it? What sound does it make? What does it eat? "I can't think of anything," one student protested at the first such writing class. "Don't worry about it," the teacher...
...government systematically attacked the Reagan peace proposals. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who had opposed the Camp David agreements, said that Washington had "markedly deviated from Camp David in almost each and every clause of its new plan." He told the Knesset that the Reagan initiative was "an attempt to bend and subjugate Israel" and that the U.S. was "no longer an honest broker" because it had chosen to side with the Arabs. Other Israeli officials objected to the linking of Jordan's King Hussein to the future of the occupied territories. As a Begin aide put it, "If this plan...
...have some impact on policymakers in Washington, and possibly on those in Jerusalem. The debate means that Begin, who has always been a more controversial figure to American Jews than his predecessors as Prime Minister, can no longer count on the united and vigorous pressure of U.S. Jews to bend the Administration away from any measures that Begin strongly opposes...