Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Western schools generally dominate the cross-country competition, but Harvard's Steve Hinkle should meet the challenge. Last week, Hinkle won the cross-country race at the Eastern Nordic Combined Championships. Ferner and Jim Wolfe are the other Harvard competitors...
...take a dare and be close to danger is difficult in America. Not much more than a hundred years ago one could have wandered through unknown wilderness, chanced upon a few angry Indians and been killed, or run into wild animals to be trampled to death, or have to cross the plains and, running out of supplies, simply die of starvation. The world was an unavoidable challenge. Of the first Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, one half of them died in the first few months, and those who remained began a new experience in which danger was common...
...Harvard health plan is solely--or even primarily--designed to help the poor. The 6000 poor patients who will join the program will make up only 20 per cent of the plan's membership. The other 80 per cent--24,000 people --will be people who now have Blue Cross or other kinds of private insurance...
...appetizing as marzipan," but she coughs "like a piece of silk tearing." This delicacy is poignant in the second half of the novel, as Chloe and Colin become the innocent victims of an inexplicable determinism for which no one will take responsibility. At Chloe's grotesque, horrifying funeral, Colin cross-examines Jesus...
...pervades even prints of an ordinary city street. The force of black line and the amount of detail packed into small rectangle zaps the prints with intensity. Contemporary colorists like Morris Louis could not exist in this world of black and brown. In an extreme example, "Effet de Nuit," cross-hatched lines form a network of fog and on a spot of page glows on he horizon. Maniacal rendering of cracks in a stone wall with pinpoint line adds to the peculiarity of the medium...