Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Confident after their narrow 20-17 victory over Springfield on Wednesday, the Harvard wrestling team hopes to pick up three straight wins when they confront Penn, Rutgers and Franklin and Marshall today...
Miles is becoming an institutional power base for Birmingham blacks, Monro says. "The black community has pitifully few formal arrangements to confront the strong, well-organized white society around it. The black college is far more than just a college, it represents a position of strength and concern...
...After the 1970 invasion of Cambodia. The Crimson covered the activities of the Harvard people who went to Washington to lobby, for peace. Michael E. Kinsley '72, would win a Dana Reed, Prize and national reprinting for his article on the Harvard Faculty who went to the Capital to confront their old colleague, Henry Kissinger. The Spring brought riots as well, spinoffs from large scale antiwar demonstrations in Boston which caused damage of varying degrees to Harvard Square...
...Presidential Counsellor, with broadened responsibility for handling interdepartmental programs. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary-designate Caspar Weinberger will become Counsellor for Human Resources, Housing and Urban Development Secretary-designate James Lynn will be Counsellor for Community Development, and Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz will oversee Natural Resources. Each will confront related problems that overlap various departments. The shift is sensible, but it has been accomplished at the expense of the other Cabinet officers, who have clearly suffered a demotion. From now on, for example, if Interior Secretary Rogers Morton wants to get a decision on the use of park land...
...continuously, in a kind of savage dialectic." After his Don Vito in The Godfather, Brando could have continued indefinitely in the security of similar roles. Instead, he has made new departures, taken new risks, and thus answered the imperative of his talent by regenerating it. In his willingness to confront publicly the fearful ambiguities of sex and death, in his ability to find new ways of exposing himself in flesh and spirit, he seems to be serving notice, in spite of himself, that he is not about to dwindle into being an institution...