Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children, child art. But when an eminently rational adult, whose career as an artist began when he was 41, proclaims that he and we can become as little children, an impressive feat of cultural legerdemain has been attempted-and nobody in the museum gets much closer to innocence...
...line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddam plate and give the other man his chance." Then he paused and concluded: "That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." ' Or is it? Surely football is closer to the Zeitgeist, with its chatter of "long bombs" and marches downfield. Surely basketball with its constant scoring, or hockey with its eruptions of violence, is America's ideal spectator sport. The conservative, hidebound sport of baseball can offer no such qualities; scoring is rare, violence a matter...
...Resistance fighter named Albert Camus. In paraphrase of Camus, Kott writes: "Prometheus' greatness is his revolt without hope." Like a banner he majestically raises Camus' fine and all-important distinction: "Being deprived of hope is not despairing." No 20th century margin shaver could come closer to making Sophocles a contemporary. Melvin Maddocks
...disturbs me that so many of the people I counsel at OGCP feel isolated from the Faculty and the other students at Harvard," Ginn said. "I've been involved in communal living experiences for the last eight years, and I think the House has great potential for becoming a closer community...
...Arab fired a burst of his submachine gun at a Cypriot policeman on guard outside the building, seriously wounding him in the chest. Another planted a large handbag filled with dynamite at the main entrance. The Arabs were apparently unaware of two things: that there was another entrance closer to Timor's apartment, and that Timor had already left, five minutes earlier, to walk to the Israeli embassy half a mile away...