Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson outshot Columbia, 29-4, and took six corner kicks to the Lions' none...The goal by Winston, a senior who was plagued by injuries in her first three years, was the first of her collegiate career...Kletz, who had two goals and an assist for fourth place on the Crimson scoring list last year, jumped out to an early lead this year with her goal and assist Saturday...Hackeling had a chance for another goal in the first half, but her direct kick hit the post...In other Ivy League action, Brown defeated Yale, 5-0...Harvard...
...seems that any account of a fulfilling college career would include items not destined for parental notification. Planning a public career needn't forestall the carousing, pranks and otherwise embarassing events of a normal youth...
...dissecting a candidate's military career is fair game because it is scrutinizing part of a public service. And asking whether a candidate abused the system to succeed is a good gauge of his respect for rules and equity...
...Roth has now produced -- an autobiography. It is not called The Counterbook, as it turns out, but The Facts, in which the previously reticent writer points out instances in which his life, after all, has been lugged directly into his fiction. No one who has carefully followed Roth's career could have expected this mid-life striptease, least of all, apparently, its author. His confession begins with an apologia of sorts, a letter to Zuckerman explaining how the book came to be written and wondering "Why should anybody other than me be reading it, especially as I acknowledge that they...
...relive what was never his, "my American childhood," by tossing tantrums like a spoiled four-year-old. He will learn that the idyll of perpetual childhood is a peculiarly American dream: "Being a kid again is as good an occupation as any. In fact, it's a pretty good career!" He will caress Linda and bully her and play M-O-T-H-E-R on the living room piano. He will be anything she desires: her son, her seducer, her salvation, her fatal fantasy. Pity this child? No. Pity instead the careless mother -- what she missed, what she lost...