Word: cains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society are born out of both: violence and gentle cooperation." That is how Psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim defines a paradoxical but inescapable fact touching the whole history of "the children of Cain." How the two forces are balanced in an individual helps determine his behavior, even his sanity. How they are balanced in society helps determine its political organization, the degree and condition of its civilization. In the U.S. today, it seems to many that violence is in the ascendant over cooperation, disruption over order, and anger over reason...
...less an eye for the four seasons of Walden Pond than for the five boroughs of New York City. He was to write: Now the midwinter grind is on me, New York drills through my nerves,/ as I walk/ the chewed-up streets. And, in a cataclysmic line: When Cain beat out his brother Abel's brains/ the Maker laid great cities in his soul...
...hopes of each squad will be riding on their big junior midfielders -- Yale with Tom Preston and Harvard with Marty Cain. Preston has been the Yalie offensive powerhouse this season with 17 goals, five in last weekend's 12-8 upset of Brown. Cain has accounted for 22 Crimson tallies this spring, and topped Preston's performance with a six-goal total against Holy Cross...
Midfielder Towny Gray found himself all alone in front of the goal five minutes later and tossed in an easy 10-foot shot to open the fourth quarter scoring. Dartmouth retaliated, but the Crimson's man up play -- this time going from Nicosia to Marty Cain-- clicked again and gave Harvard a 6-4 lead...
CANADIAN histories dutifully record the glum surmise of the 16th century explorer Jacques Cartier, who sighted Labrador and declared: "This must be the land that God gave Cain." Voltaire dismissed Canada as "a few acres of snow." Canada's massive, historical inferiority complex is without question the biggest in the Western world, a longstanding wonder and delight to analysts of various national psyches. If the U.S. worries about not being liked abroad, Canada worries about not liking itself at home. Hugh MacLennan, one of the country's best-known novelists, writes wryly: "If it be true that...