Word: brandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While everyone else north of Delaware was concentrating on the Yankees and the Sox this weekend, Ivy elevens were busy generating their own peculiar brand of gridiron excitement...
...Good for Brand, O'Connell and Orlick and the new no-win, noncompetitive games [Sept. 11]. Acceptance of them will be slow in a nation geared to tot-'em-up victories and defeats. Surely, the human race can see the merit inherent in striving to become better doctors and teachers, parents and human beings, and will try to improve in the important ways without the empty rewards of raised arms and Scoreboard lights...
There was dismay, too, that Vorster was bowing out at the very moment when his brand of pragmatism was most needed. The Namibia decision was seen as a kind of backlash by Cabinet elders against what they regarded as U.N. highhandedness. The reasons given for the turnaround on the U.N. plan convinced no one. Pretoria, it was now clear, was not about to let SWAPO come to power, even in free elections. That means a long-term military commitment by South Africa in Namibia?and a dilemma for the U.S. and Britain, who will face pressure to punish South Africa...
...looked out and saw a brand of football and a variation of the game that he hadn't seen before. It was a lot like the day he had first learned to write his name cursive. It was his name all right, but written in a way that was not straight-forward, not easy to look at, or understand. The Harvard Band marched on the field for the halftime show...
...thought about the unexpected primary dump of Governor Dukakis, but the opening night crowd at the Colonial Theater was oddly removed from all the shenanigans outside. They were there for a Good Time, and they were determined to get it for the price they had paid. Well, when the brand new musical version of King of Hearts finally ended, the crowd stood up and cheered. You don't usually see that on opening night for anything. There are two possible explanations. First, and most obvious, is that Boston is a pitifully poor town for professional theater; even the faintest whiff...