Word: countering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Princeton is favored at the top with Demer Holleran, Mary Foulk and Hope MacKay, but the Crimson will counter with Tri-Captains Jenny Holleran and Sheila Morrisey and sophomore Stephanie Clark. Harvard's top three are capable of pulling out one or two of the matches. The rest of the line-up is a toss...
...procession, proceeding vertically through time. But it was a metaphysical conceit of the baby boomers that the present expanded horizontally, into a kind of earthly eternity. "We want the world, and we want it now!" In the great collision of the generations, the young created their own world, a "counter culture" as Historian Theodore Roszak first called it, and endowed it with the significances and pseudo-profundities of a New World. No one had ever had sex before. No one had ever had the Dionysian music, the sacramental drugs, the world struggling back to its protomagical state...
...order to counter the University's celebrity-laden slate for the Board of Overseers, the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid nominates Jack Lemmon '47, Talking Heads keyboardist Jerry Harrison '70 and folksinger Tom Rush '63. Michael S. Dukakis (Law School '60) attempts to place himself on the ballot as a write-in candidate, however he cannot find the requisite 293 alumni to recognize...
...today's "Black Americans" are a racial mixture of African, Native American Indian and European bloodlines. Regardless of the surface color (phenotypy), we are a unique genetic creation of this hemisphere, and America is our only home. Perhaps the name Afrindeur-American would be more precise. Dr. S. Allen Counter Director, Harvard Foundation
...million worth of American beef. The Reagan Administration immediately struck back, imposing 100% tariffs on $100 million worth of West German hams, Italian tomatoes and other foods. Last week the E.C. said in effect that unless the dispute is resolved by the end of January, it will counter-retaliate with 100% tariffs on $100 million worth of U.S. walnuts and dried fruits...