Word: classics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought in." Last year a Coast Guard boat chugged out to rescue a man whose brand-new, 36-ft. cruiser had broken down. The rescuers tossed him a towline, whereupon the stalled skipper triumphantly tied it around his waist and hollered "Let's go!" One of the classic invitations to trouble comes for the outboard owner when the engine quits. The owner lunges to the stern to fix it. His added weight brings the transom, already too low in the water, lower still. A five-gallon wave (roughly 50 lbs.) slops aboard. The next wave comes in easier...
Plainly, Red China's leadership had concluded that if its smaller neighbors could not be deceived by propaganda, they must be quieted by fear. Red China's truculence also served another classic function: at the moment, Peking needs internal pressure more than it needs external friends...
...aping of the past for the sake of novelty. The death of Hellenism in the fall of the Roman Empire was not caused by a "triumph of religion and barbarism," says Toynbee, taking issue with Gibbon. As Toynbee sees it, Christianity did not put the torch to the classic world; it lit one for it in the sightless dark...
Holmes then cut through the Bulldog line and, as he was tackled, passed out to Charlie Rowe, who ran the remaining yards for the try, completing one of the most classic three quarter movements of the year...
...ballet). Occasionally ragged the first evening, the Bolshoi's Swan Lake was danced with fine precision at the second performance. The repetitive, copybook attitudes of the ballet corps occasionally clotted the action and wearied the eye. But for the most part, the old war horse of the classic ballet came alive with a freshness it rarely achieves. A big part of the reason: the Russians approach the old fairy tale with simple, direct, unsophisticated conviction that communicates a sense of joy to the audience...