Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made him an honorary member last week. The slapstick-basketball players presented the outgoing Secretary of State with a team uniform, playing shoes, warmup jacket and an autographed basketball. Standing on an eight-inch-high platform to measure up to his guests, Kissinger approvingly noted that his new uniform bore the number 1. Said Henry: "The numeral accords with my estimate of myself...
...Spanish had destroyed a temple to the Aztec goddess of earth and corn known as the "Little Mother." When the bishop refused, the Virgin made Castilian roses bloom among the hillside rocks, and Juan Diego took them to the bishop in his scrape. When he opened his cloak, it bore a miraculous painting of the Virgin in unmistakably Indian form, with a brown face and black hair. As Graham Greene once wrote, "The legend gave the Indian self-respect; it gave him a hold over his conquerors...
Michael A. Kennedy '80 never had an identity crisis until he came to Harvard. He got his first shock at registration, where the biographical information about his mother in his registration packet bore no relation to the woman who reared...
...drift. "Don't use that dumb hippie expression with me!" she roared, the phlegm rumbling in her throat. "I forgot what to do next! I forgot the next move!" She began lumbering around the room knocking over bookcases and smashing her rare collection of African fertility statuettes which bore an eerie resemblance to the little baseball players with bobbing round heads you can pick up at highway restaurants. After she had smashed the Willie Mays and Fred Lynn figures she hurled her awesome ire blazing in my direction...
...first few issues of any publication are likely to be a bit awkward. Headlines in the pilot issue of In These Times were often misleading, and one bore no relation whatsoever to the content of an entire page...