Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advises Arrupe on educational matters. Indian Jesuit Herbert de Souza observes that Jesuits react to the crisis in one of two ways: "Some of us become numbed while others overreact. There will be a split among thinking men, especially devoted thinking men, in a crisis situation. They will often clash head-on because of a common devotion." Arrupe presides over a sometimes chaotic variety of individuals, whose special Jesuit intensity, a quality of the breed, often gives them individualistic interpretations of the society's slogan, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam (To the greater glory of God). Some examples...
...library, concerts and some courses to the public, Botstein has also improved relations with the conservative townspeople. He explains: "Many of them used to feel that the people on the hill thought themselves better, had a direct line to the truth, and held the locals in contempt. Now the clash has vanished...
There is no World War I and no Hitler, although a devastating global war does develop in 1939. The immediate cause of the war was a clash between Britain and Germany for the oil of the Ottoman Empire. Television and the widespread use of airplanes begin earlier in the C.N.A. than they did, in fact, in the U.S. But the atomic bomb is developed about 20 years later. Russia never grows into a power, but Mexico frightens the world...
...point of all this is not that Harvard should try and steal Knight away from Indiana, but that the Department of Athletics should hire a defensively oriented coach. Knight could never fit in here. His boisterous, cantankerous, flamboyant style would clash with sedate, apathetic Harvard. However, his coaching philosophy is desperately needed. There is tremendous individual talent on the Crimson basketball team, but it needs to be blended together. The Harvard cagers' man-to-man defense has been pitifully weak for most of the last three seasons, causing the Crimson to lose a number of games they should have...
...raised Harvard's record to 9-5 with only one match remaining. The Crimson clash with Yale here on Saturday...