Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youngest U.S. champion in 39 years, Nicklaus has not yet finished college (he has two quarters to go at Ohio State), but he won last week's Open with a rare blend of mature skill and courage, withstanding pressures fierce enough to unnerve the most seasoned competitor. In a tense, head-to-head play-off before a hostile gallery, Nicklaus beat the world's best-known golfer, Arnold Palmer, grimly refusing to yield to a classic Palmer surge, and winning finally by the comfortable margin of three strokes, 71 to 74. To get into the playoff, Nicklaus...
...college hierarchy, or some gentle musings on the anti-Harvard attitude of Harvard's Henry Adams, or even reflections on the upstream migration of the alewives, persistent saltwater fish that find their way to Massachusetts streams each spring. These unlikely enclosures come from a man with an unlikely blend of talents: David McCord-poet, essayist and professional fund raiser-who retires this week after 37 years as executive director of the Harvard Fund Council...
...undergraduate publication mentioned "the sense of intellectual triumph that comes from a thesis written between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. on the night before it is due"--helped along, no doubt, by a consoling Fatima Turkish Blend Cigarette, which purported to be of assistance in times of crisis like "writing to HER" or studying in exam period...
...broad rivalry between the two family dynasties it is a further paradox that McCormack must run as an anti-Kennedy candidate. The picture of the President that adorns the wall of his office suggests the similarities between the two men. Ideologically McCormack is a liberal with the Kennedy blend of soaring, egalitarian rhetoric and halting political pragmatism. Other pictures on the mantle show the candidate with Harry Truman and Pope John XXIII...
...colleges was a large, angular plot, bounded on one side by the huge Gothic tower of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and on the other by the unbelievable part-medieval, part-Georgian Graduate School. The design which Saarinen eventually produced offended neither on the two and managed, in fact, to blend excellently with the Gothic...