Word: colds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward Said's article on Orientalism came like a breath of fresh air. It is high time that the American press stopped depicting Muslim Arabs as greedy desert bandits or cold-blooded terrorists...
After playing impressively down South. Crimson bats turned cold up north--the bottom third of the lineup simply died, and the only two consistent batters, Mark Bingham and Mike Stenhouse, had trouble hitting the long ball. By the time the entire lineup came alive collectively two weeks ago, though, the pitching staff had long since lost its early-season edge. Even the diamond god Brown turned out to be mortal...
...preface of Delta of Venus tells the rueful tale of the cold voice over the telephone with its directive, "Leave out the poetry. Concentrate on sex." The impoverished writers who, along with Nin, wrote for the old man to pay their bills, resented this commandment greatly. At one point Nin wrote him a letter which said in part...
After the southern trip, the unbearable cold spell, the slump that overstayed its welcome, the doubleheader fiasco versus Columbia and the twin shellings of Larry Brown, these boys are finally peaking. The Harvard baseball team played superbly in its home finale yesterday, defeating Boston College, 7-6, in a game that really wasn't that close...
...brought prosperity but not a return to pre-Depression normalcy. News, most of it threatening, came thicker and faster: the cold war, Mao's revolution in China, the Alger Hiss case, Korea. At their 1952 conventions, the first to be covered by TV, both parties were forced to consider potential nominees who had challenged the old-line bosses by going over their heads and reaching the public through the channels of journalism. The Democrats stopped Estes Kefauver, but the G.O.P. accepted Dwight Eisenhower. In the end, it mattered less to the delegates that Ike was only a nominal Republican than...