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...fears that some of the Crimson players expressed last week about their upcoming clash with the noted "jock school" proved unfounded. The Harvard offense kept the pressure on the Southern netminder, while the defense did a fine job of protecting goalie Ellen Seidler...
...people pay attention to sports? A: Because there is always an element of the unknown attached to competition. Participants as well as spectators can never predict positively, unalterably, absolutely and beyond a shadow of a doubt what the result of an individual clash, a two-team series, or even the eventual outcome of a whole season will...
Arthur Rex features hard-boiled knights in a pseudo-Arthurian landscape, and the clash of styles has the discordant ring of crossed lances at a joust. His heroes talk obsessively of "paps" and "mammets" (not, as Berger supposes, a variant of mammaries, but a medieval reference to Muhammad). The labored effort to reproduce Malory's diction is a disaster. Horses are "sore thirsty," kings are "some vexed," lusty knights "swyve" damsels, addressed elsewhere as "chicks." Launcelot is said to have "filled a need for the queen," a disheartening summation of one of the world's most fabled love...
...leaders felt threatened when the Shah set out to create a Western-style nation in the 20th century mold. He called his campaign the White (for bloodless) Revolution. Later it was renamed the Shah-People's Revolution, but changing the name did not prevent the inevitable clash of cultures...
Both the Hayden/Fonda and the John Birch camps aim to produce future leaders of the Movement (left or right), not docile students. Says Hayden: "There is a real clash between what they pick up in the camp and what they go back to." For the Birchers, what their children learn at camp provides a corrective to the subversive ideas taught in school. "The kids are indoctrinated with statism in the public schools," claims Karen Fiddament, whose daughter attended a Birch Society camp this summer. "The camps indoctrinate them with another point of view...