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...evening, however, was not devoid of excellent Crimson performances. Sophomores Terri Frick and Kathleen McCloskey each copped new pool records. Frick establishing a new mark in the 200-yard Butterfly in a brisk 2:11.72, and then winning the 400 Individual Medley in 4:47.66--just three-tenths of a second shy of a new record...
Heady stuff this, argued intelligently, understandably, with only a bit of scholarly overquotation to slow down the brisk pace. Freud himself said Nietzsche, much maligned for his supposed "Nazi" affinities, "had a more penetrating knowledge of himself than any other man who ever lived or was ever likely to live." Surely Freud's concept of the superego was inspired by Nietzsche's ubermensch or superman. Further, argues Kaufmann the petty iconoclast, Nietzsche's will to power provoked Freud to posit the "death instinct" as a second principle motivating human behavior...
...brisk, sunny day last November, several of Boston's clergy gathered on the Common anticipating the start of something big. The kickoff of the ecumenical Covenant of Racial Justice, Equity, and Harmony campaign was an event designed to show Boston's true colors, so to speak. The interdenominational service wasn't expected to draw quite as big a crowd as the Pope's stop in Boston the month before, but the weather was better (it had rained on John Paul), and organizers hoped that a sense of urgency mixed with good will would attract at least 10,000 citizens...
Outdoor advertising in the People's Republic of China was once mainly brisk quotations from the works of Chairman Mao mixed with exhortations to work harder for the victory of Socialism. These days the billboard messages might be promotions for such American consumer products as Kodak film and Marlboro cigarettes...
...generally predicted that U.S. business will be sluggish next year. The board's median forecast for 1981 anticipates growth of 2.7%, although individual predictions ranged widely. Republican Murray Weidenbaum, director of the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis, forecast a relatively brisk 4% expansion, but independent Economic Consultant Robert Nathan projected an all-but-invisible expansion of only...