Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...squad suffered a similar fortune last Saturday, also, as they succumbed to Yale, 76-63. The game, however, was much closer than the score might indicate...
...certain features in that society's religions, laws, social structure, environment, history, or cosmology." The "fabulous" stories of romance, on the other hand, meet the imaginative needs of the community in the form of entertainment. And just as the Bible is an epic f the Creator, Romance "brings us closer than any other aspect of literature to a sense of fiction, considered as a whole, as epic of creation, man's vision of his own life as a quest." Romance isn't necessarily just a love story. Sometimes it's an adventure story and some of its common conventions, according...
...course, is busing. It overshadows all other concerns, and Wallace has been agin' it longer than any of the candidates. In Boston, where the antibusing vote is estimated to be between 35% and 40%, Wallace can no longer be considered a candidate of the extremes. He has moved closer to the mainstream; he is careful, for example, not to let his attack on busing be misconstrued as criticism of blacks. He claims sensible people of both races agree with his stand...
...Robert E. De Mascio to keep resentment at a minimum, especially among the white minority. (Blacks make up 58% of the population, 76% of the public school enrollment.) Under his order, the few remaining mostly white schools in the outlying areas have exchanged students with the predominantly black schools closer to the downtown area; the aim is to increase white enrollment in those schools to at least 30%. But no whites are being bused into the city's core, where the schools are virtually all black. Hence, Detroit School Board President Cornelius Golightly, a black, calls the order "minimum...
...Doonesbury the real and the fictive combine, and actuality blends into commentary. The results are often closer to truth than mere news reports. A week ago, for instance, a presidential aide was complaining in Doonesbury that the congressional report on CIA assassination plots did not give the agency proper credit for bumping off Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco last fall: "He was giving us some trouble over our bases in Spain, so in 1963 one of our agents poisoned him with a time-release capsule. It reached full potency last November." "Really? ... That's amazing," says an incredulous...