Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...getting to the semis, Green scored a major upset in defeating Dartmouth's No. 1 player Eric Holzer. Green's 6-1, 7-6 victory, combined with Lee's defeat of Kleigerman, solidified the Crimson's position at the top of the Ivy League. Only Dartmouth and Princeton brought their top players, and both were defeated by players from the middle of the Crimson lineup...
Captain Mike Zimmerman netted all four goals for Harvard in the defeat, but it wasn't enough as the Crimson entered the loser's bracket, with its chances of advancing to ECAC's eliminated...
...result: two tough road losses. The first was a 15-8, 10-15, 15-8, 15-12 loss to the Bulldogs on Friday and the second a 15-10, 16-14, 15-12 defeat at the hands of the Bears on Saturday...
...vote. But this month an outfit called Americans for Job Security--in reality a front group led by large insurance companies furious with Pallone for heading the charge for managed-care reform--unveiled an anti-Pallone "issue ad": the TV spot blasts Pallone's positions without explicitly advocating his defeat. Among other things, it accuses him of voting to raid the Social Security trust fund to pay for welfare. "Call Congressman Pallone," the announcer says, over a video of disreputable card sharks, "and tell him to...stop gambling with our futures." Pallone says the ad is false...
This is not genre writing, agreeable trash to be pigeonholed. If salt-soaked comparison is required, O'Brian's adventures suggest Joseph Conrad's sea tales more than those of C.S. Forester and his Horatio Hornblower. Conrad's prevailing mood is darker; though O'Brian can summon darkness and defeat, he is more arch and owlish. But as Forester did, O'Brian novelizes serially. The precarious lives of two memorable characters, friends and shipmates, thread through his books...