Word: boilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Naturally, Americans watching the Games will be pulling for Young and Mueller and Hamill. Austrians will be banking on victory from their skiing heroes, and Russians will be cheering on their countrymen. But despite the rivalries and loyalties, the news from Innsbruck will boil down to something as old and transcendent as the idea of the Olympics-the lonely, private, consummate effort to exceed in the human arena, and in competition where the drama and grace of the match surpass all else...
...soul. Returning to Harvard in 1974, I thought I noticed a drop in temperature which wasn't "just me." If it would be presumptuous to preach or speak for others, perhaps I can at least share some impressions to see if they resonate at all. They boil down to the claim that we are being fatefully socialized here into a way of knowing and naming the world which renders whole populations invisible and entire regions in ourselves inaccessible, and which saddles us with gloomy characterizations of human nature that keep faith with no one and aren't half so realistic...
...story had eluded his control on page 98 ("Too much is happening in this story"). One would rather trust the unashamed lust of the Au. for his main character which finally sublimates itself when he makes a nun his lover in the last fifty pages. For Boil, there is nothing so honest as sensuality: Leni's sensuality, even when she does not know Nazis kill Jews; the sensuality of anonymous lovers who in churches, cemeteries, or bomb-shelters embrace each other amid the desolation of an air-raid; and the sensuality of an Au. who has conceded from page...
...shooting punch of its "French Connection" line-Center Gilbert Perreault and Wingers Rene Robert and Richard Martin-Buffalo reached the finals by humiliating the Montreal Canadiens four games to two. The outcome of the Flyers-Sabres series, which opened last week with a 4-to-l Flyers victory, should boil down to how well Goalie Bernie Parent and Philadelphia's hard-checking defense contain the flashy Sabre attack...
Hospital-where the obstetrics nursing staff had hung a banner reading: WELCOME HOME, DR. EDELIN. Nonetheless, the verdict had already sent a shock wave through hospital OBG services across the country and heated the simmering abortion controversy back to a full boil...