Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he is popularly viewed as a kind of Catholic Mr. Chips, Hesburgh is now held in such awe by Notre Dame students that they seldom deal personally with him. Student Body President Mike Gassman says he would not dare interrupt the president with ordinary school problems because "he's too important now." Another student says, "Father Ted is usually too busy playing world savior." Both of them are swift to add, however, they think Hesburgh is the main force behind Notre Dame's stress on values...
...armies are gone-no one can afford to keep those expensive, energy-gobbling monstrosities. Some soldiers in uniform and with rifles are present in almost every still functioning nation, but only the United States and the Soviet Union can maintain a few tanks, planes and ships-which they dare not move for fear of biting into limited fuel reserves...
...spring after all, when Crimson editors wax poetical (or Disneyish anyway) over budding flowers and young love and billing Birds and buzzing bees and I dare say that this album will fill the AM bands all this summer and midnight FM specials for the more snobbish of us rock-audiences all the next year when WRKO and the like have worn out their copies of the record. This band sings "Everything I need" (and you need and they all need) and it turns out to be nothing more elaborate than the litanied spring chorus "Baby, won't you hold...
Richard Dawkins' new book, The Selfish Gene, rehashes, somewhat incoherently, conclusions drawn from studies showing the tremendous influence of genes on animal behavior. The main reason Dawkins's book has not been immediately shoved away to some dusty corner in Widener where only zoologists and rats would dare to tread is because Dawkins has added a spicy--and misleading--approach to the subject of genetics...
Clean Gene had spent a very busy and tiring day, the smartly-dressed Institute of Politics escorts told me. He had arisen very early in the morning and was in no shape after this 2-hour lecture to answer another barrage of questions. "Don't you dare press him," they threatened...