Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, the march drew Senators Edward Kennedy and Edward Brooke. Some 30,000 people showed up, and while the march's tone was decidedly positive and the crowds seemed concerned, militant blacks and firm busing foes were notably absent. Whether long-term peace was any closer remained in doubt...
...frosh tennis team smashed their way one match closer to an undefeated season Saturday with a 7-2 victory over Lawrenceville. The two defeats came in the number one spot in both singles and doubles...
With yesterday's 3-1 loss to a slick (now 13-3) Brandeis team on an even slicker Soldiers Field, the squad's record rests, not so comfortably, at 3-10 (14-12 total). Each game draws Harvard's overall mark a little closer to that elusive .500 mark, but unfortunately, it's being driven there from the wrong direction...
Hitchcock connects the lines of this rather unwieldy parallelogram with cursory concern for symmetry and suspense. As Blanche and Lumley draw closer to Adamson and Fran, the latter two assume they are being followed for purposes of blackmail, and plot accordingly. This leads to two scenes of automotive terror-Blanche and Lumley trapped in a car hurtling out of control on a winding mountain road, then trying to outrun a pursuing sedan on foot-that are among the clumsiest sequences Hitchcock has ever put together...
...swift and sudden. The Jews' strong communal sense, Howe suggests, opened them to the socialist organization brought by radicals arriving from Warsaw and Vilna after 1905. Socialism became for the Jews a belief, as idealistic fervor, which, the immigrants hoped, would bring the actuality of their American world closer to their original vision of it. The new Bund leaders snatched their chances in the shirtwaist makers strike of 1909 which made of a brave but undisciplined group of female shopworkers the members of a recognized ILGW union and a year later, in the cloak-makers strike which transformed the unionists...