Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maureen Orth in a "Last Supplement" to the Whole Earth Catalog. "Acid trips in the seventh grade, sex in the eighth, the Viet Nam War a daily serial on TV since you were nine, parents and school worse than 'irrelevant'?meaningless. No wonder Jesus is making a great comeback." The death of authority brought the curse of uncertainty. As Thomas Farber writes in Tales for the Son of My Unborn Child: "The freedom from work, from restraint, from accountability, wondrous in its inception, became banal and counterfeit. Without rules there...
...self-destruction, the ne plus ultra of confessional verse. The Bell Jar is a marvelously unself-conscious confessional novel dashed off before such documents were in vogue. Now, however, it is as if the likes of Joan Didion have merely been sweeping the stage for Sylvia's ghostly comeback. Like the Lady Lazarus of her poem, she is a virtuoso of death. As she wrote: "You could say I have a call...
...determined comeback by the Harvard baseball team fell short in the College World Series last night as the Crimson fell to powerful Tulsa, 9-8, at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha...
...Wingate also reports a bright spot amid the goo. The Bermuda cahow, a rare marine bird supposedly doomed by pesticides flushed into the ocean, is apparently staging a comeback. This year the world's last 24 pairs of cahows have produced twelve healthy chicks. A likely reason, Wingate thinks, might be that the rising tide of floating tar is at least temporarily absorbing the harmful pesticides...
...incredible comeback in intramural sports by Quincy House has brought it from a sixth-place Fall finish to second and has turned the Straus Trophy competition into a close two-team race between Quincy and Winthrop...