Word: calvinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some funny business is going on at Empire Industries. When Chairman Calvin Cromwell schedules an emergency board meeting, the vice presidents fly into a paranoid panic. The terrified executives are certain he has discovered their illicit affairs, embezzlement and Government bribes. A secretary prepares for the meeting by putting airsickness bags around the board table and supplying Valium and smelling salts. A ranting Cromwell finally tells his subordinates, "Someone on this board is responsible, and they're going to hang...
...sure, the sort of anticipation that had preceded the 1968 Game, toward which both teams had swaggered without a loss. The '68 astonishment still reverberates: Quarterback Brian Bowling, the model for Garry Trudeau's B.D. in the Doonesbury comic strip, and big Calvin Hill, the star halfback who went on to play pro football for the Dallas Cowboys, led Yale to a 29-13 advantage with less than eleven minutes to go. Yalies in the crowd began waving their handkerchiefs at the Harvards across the field, in The Game's customary gesture of well-bred derision. Then...
...therein lies the Crimson's biggest question mark. Not so much because sophomore Pat Smith--the starter--and junior Kevin Boyle--the very able backup--don't have the talent to replace the graduated Calvin Dixon...
...record is just as uneven in areas other than national security. Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover have been castigated by historians for watching the signs of looming economic chaos in the 1920s and failing to take action that might have helped control the damage. The entire roster of modern problems-central-city decay, environmental pollution, civil rights conflict-could be seen approaching, but no President really moved to head them...
There, he joined fellow sophomore Pat Smith, who has apparently taken over for the Crimson's star of a year ago, point guard Calvin Dixon, who graduated last June...