Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devastating to the boy. In his mind, it became an expulsion from the Elysian fields to a dingy urban purgatory. He promptly contracted something diagnosed as diphtheria, which rendered him bedridden and turned his nature inward toward solitary fantasy. The resemblance to O'Neill's bout with TB is unmistakable...
...knack for constant searching of the soul even as more accessible parts of her body are being set upon by a battery of lovers. She submits willingly to such film makers' queries from off-camera as "Where are you now, Claudine?" even as she is finishing up a bout of lovemaking. Claudine seems to have a depressing and detumescent effect on men and performs rather more proficiently, at least for the cameras, with members of her own sex: "I think being bisexual gives one balance...
...Thucydides. The son of a social worker (his mother was one of the first women in England to earn a university degree), Toynbee studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford, and he was teaching Thucydides there when the first World War broke out. Unfit for the military because of a bout of dysentery, Toynbee spent the war working in the Foreign Office, then roamed the Middle East, and eventually taught at the University of London. He thought he would write his study of history in one long summer vacation. He published the first three volumes in 1934, reached...
...instead of heading into today's heavyweight bout with the possibility of becoming the top dog in the Ivy League, the Princetonians are rather facing extinction. Teams with two conference losses do not win Ivy championships...
Graham is in many ways the most doctrinaire of the nine councilors, unwilling to compromise if she thinks that a proposal would run counter to her Riverside-Cambridgeport constituents' interests. Because the R.C. area is in Harvard's southern backyard, Graham has had more than an occasional bout with the University and she has often come out on top. Credit her with stopping both the Kennedys and Harvard from putting the Kennedy Museum across the river in Allston. And old-time Harvard people still shudder when they remember that it was Graham who took over the Commencement platform...