Word: dan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sanctimonious or hyprocritical use of religious ones-crèches in store windows, a Madonna presiding over the liquor-and-gift-basket department. In the U.S.'s mixed society, "the emphasis is to bypass our differences and get away from the controversy of Christmas," says Professor Dan Dodson, chairman of the sociology department at New York University. "We try to water down the holiday to make it less barbed for people of non-Christian faiths, and this results in a mass culture which erodes away sharp differences...
Then as now, most sportswriters took themselves so seriously that they wrote about a baserunner stealing home as earnestly as if they were covering the theft of the Mono. Lisa. Woodward kept his subject in perspective, cutting everyone down to size with his sardonic sense of humor. When Dan Ferris retired as executive secretary of the Amateur Athletic Union in 1962, Woodward expressed unabashed pleasure. "As a tour conductor of American athletes abroad, Ferris ranked with Mike Quill's newest subway guard...
...Freshman Dan Rubin saved Brandeis from total embarrassment by taking one bout in toil against sophomore John Kruse, 5-2. Kruse won his other match, 5-0. Half of Harvard's scoring was by second-stringers...
...dive, transfer John Friedman will have to fill the gap left by Eastern Champion Dan Mahoney's graduation and injuries to Charles Vines and Pete Alter. Only in the backstroke is the team without a strong contender...
That brought the ball to Harvard's thirty. Runs by Jim Weigel and Groninger moved Yale to the Crimson 18, where their drive was halted. With fourth down and three, Dan Begel attempted a 35-yard field goal, which was wide to the left...