Word: club
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three years ago when the squad was moving from a club sport to a varsity level II sport, there was some question as to whether Scalise should be coaching a women's sport since he was of the opposite sex. During one of the last practices that fall the players were surprised to find a women with long blond braids, a corduroy skirt and ankle socks waiting for them in place of Scalise on the field. Closer observation showed however, that the legs were those of an All-American lacrosse player...
...Kennedy this week will make the official announcement of his candidacy at historic Faneuil Hall in his native Boston. California Governor Jerry Brown, who has been planning his own run against Carter for more than a year, is expected to follow suit the next day at the National Press Club in Washington. Republican Howard Baker, the minority leader of the U.S. Senate, last week made his candidacy official. Next week former California Governor Ronald Reagan will announce his latest attempt. On this, his third time round. Reagan will enter the race as the early favorite for the Republican nomination...
...standing in the national opinion polls fell into the basement and his own warm political body was threatened. In that is an echo of the modern curse of personality politics. But that is less important if through some alchemy of these past weeks Jimmy Carter has joined the presidential club, likes it in there and wants to stay there badly enough to change himself. We all benefit...
Problem: What to do about it? His craftsmanship is clear in his depiction of supermarket and bridge-club life. But those in the John Gardner camp of moral fiction would charge that Updike's skillfulness does not become a vision until he guides his characters, and thus his readers, to the higher ground of moral purpose...
...many musical revues inhabit the House dining halls and common rooms every fall and every spring, and that also seems to be the only reason for this production of Brel. A modestly talented group of performers has taken on the challenge of resurrecting Brel's seedy, French-night-club spirit, and both cast and audiences seem mildly intrigued by the subject. But the production has no pretense of saying something new and provocative about Brel, or in fact saying anything about him at all; and the sparse attendance at last Saturday night's performance ought to suggest that there...