Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...health-food enthusiast (honey, brewers' yeast, wheat germ), Fleckman borrowed $6,500 to finance his fling at the tour and won the first pro tournament he entered: last year's Cajun Classic. Some pros insist that Fleckman does not follow through properly, and flips the club during his downswing. But he is making that flawed swing...
Seasons is fundamentally static, and it seems to move more from conclusion to conclusion than from scene to scene. Wesker is good at suggesting how a couple in love becomes the most exclusive club in the world. He registers the fierce chemistry of passion by which the Other Woman swiftly becomes the Only Woman. Where Wesker is strongest he is also weakest, since the language of love is finite and, in his prosaic words, even banal...
Card Carrier. As the Depression deepened, so did Wright's belief that radical politics held the only promise for social and racial justice. In 1932, he joined the Chicago John Reed Club and, says Miss Webb, "committed himself wholeheartedly-morally, intellectually and artistically-in the fullest gesture of his life." Miss Webb is hesitant to say outright that Wright was cynically used by the American Communist Party to rally Negro support. Yet she makes it quite clear that, although Wright carried a party card, he was too preoccupied with his problems as an artist and his own writing career...
...opening day of the Grand Challenge Cup, Harvard's heavies easily defeated the London Rowing Club. The next day, July 3, the Crimson faced its toughest challenge--in the Isis Boat Club, representing Oxford. The inspired Americans won by a length...
...then it was July 4, as if the British had planned it that way. Harvard's opponent was the Thames Rowing Club, an all-star team of former collegiate rowers. But the race turned out to be anti-climatic, as the precise Crimson machine methodically outdistanced its opponent and won by 2 3/4 lengths...