Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's own existential bunch of Pied Pipers a couple of seasons back ridiculed an American President and the cadets' rigid stance at the West Point Stadiums...
...true, of course. And Presley was the King, The Beatles were bigger than Jesus, and the Dead are a bunch of burned-out, boring refugees from the '60s with no redeeming value whatsoever. You can't argue with these intrinsically valid generalizations, but there's so much more to these groups. By the same token, there's so much more to Costello than the simple-minded cliches that have plagued his entire career...
Many had picked Dartmouth, which tied for the league title a year ago and had a bunch of key players returning, to take the Ivy laurels (vines?) home again in '82. Those same soothsayers had Penn penciled in eighth place, a spot the Quakers have found to their liking in recent years. The predictors had the Big Green favored by 15 points over the foot ballers from Philadelphia...
...most leaders say that this particular bunch is not any more inherently conservative on minority issues--just less familiar with them. "You get a lot more harassment at the freshman union for gay tables than even at Kirkland House," Wall says, adding, "They're fresh out of high school." Ting says that this conservatism among freshman is to be expected and that he changed his own mind on many issues just by talking with upperclassmen...
...peaceful solution of the bloody Lebanese standoff. That they did not do. As the contingent prepared to head back to Washington last week, having visited five countries and attracted a great deal of unwarranted attention, the five Democrats and one Republican no longer appeared to be a shrewd bunch of legislators honing their perceptions of the region. In stead, they stood revealed as a coterie of naive bumblers wandering helplessly among the battle-hardened chieftains of the Levant. A grand master of Middle East intrigue, P.L.O...