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...centuries. Written in a prose that Latourette describes as "clear but unadorned," Twentieth Century is scrupulously impartial to Roman Catholics and Protestants, meticulously supported with statistics and footnotes. Latourette warms noticeably in treating the details of a favorite theme, the growth of Christian missions around the world. He is crisp, exact, and noncommittal in describing the great intellectual trends-the social gospel, the ecumenical movement, the liturgical revival-that have shaped Christianity since...
...Daddy! Daddy!" At the opening bell, Fullmer characteristically folded his arms in front of him to ward off punches and lunged forward-straight into a barrage of overhand rights and crisp left hooks that snapped his head back and opened a small cut at the edge of his left eye. Desperately, Fullmer began to elbow and butt, trying to bull Tiger into the ropes. Ruthlessly, the Nigerian Tiger mimicked him, tactic for tactic. By the ninth round, blood cascaded down the champion's left cheek. Sitting horror-stricken at ringside, four-year-old DeLaun Fullmer screamed, "Daddy! Daddy...
...Like the crisp wind that blows through the mountains and the powder snow that drifts across the plains, politics in the west is refreshing and unusually clean...
...Miss yell spiraled through the crisp sunlit air like a football passed by Chuckin' Charley Conerly of legendary lore. Boys, lean and brimming with youthful vigor, horseplayed around-almost as if they were unconscious of the pretty coeds who watched them. Right down to the blue and maroon freshman beanies, the scene was of the sort to make alumni hearts swell with bittersweet memories of days long gone. But beneath all the laughter, beneath all the seeming exuberance, was an ugly, constantly recurring question. "When," the kids asked one another, "will the nigger come...
...fifth were sons of fathers who never went to college; 57% came from public schools. Almost 10% entered as sophomores; 30% had scholarships, with a total value of $462,000. Confidently donning crisp chinos and loafers or white sneakers, they set out frankly to acquire "the Harvard label." Said one boy blandly: "After you get out of Harvard, your contacts are the leaders of the country...