Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Shaw and Walker had dropped their singles matches in straight sets, Captain Waldman bore down to defeat his number one opponent, Cary Leeds, and stop the Yale surge. After the two topflight players had split 6-3 sets, Waldman broke Leeds's serve at 2-all in the third set and appeared to be en route to victory...
Trailing 2-4 in the third set and returning Molen's strong serve, iceman Lundy bore down to break service, then held on to force the tiebreaker at six-all. A couple of clutch shots later he took the tiebreaker, 5-2 and with it the match...
...doing when I sit down to write." Others praise the close supervision, which gives the course the feeling of a private tutorial. Yet the method also has its critics. A common complaint, voiced by another Wheaton student, is that the repetitive drilling can be "a terrific bore and is not exactly creative." Admits Katherine Feeney, a Van Nostrand instructor at Brown: "Sometimes the students feel that it's all too structured." But, she adds, "there aren't many who don't feel amazed by how much they've learned...
...lacks the electricity of former days, the stunning moments of lucidity and passion. The one who once radicalized you and opened your eyes to new kinds of wrongness in the world now has grown conservative, even reactionary. The eyes that once held the greatest depth, the silences that bore such meaning hypnotize you and hold you for a moment, but then you wonder whether still waters run deep or stagnant...
...deliver eight generations for roughly $200. In the U.S., there is a nourishing mail-order trade in expensive coats of arms (TIME, Jan. 27, 1975), but these are almost all bogus. Regardless of his surname, only the eldest son of the eldest son of families who actually bore arms is entitled to a shield. In Genealogist J. Charles Thompson's words: "You have no more business using another man's arms than you would have using his toothbrush...