Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time the ball curved, however, was when it began its descent toward a field 375 feet away and behind a 15 foot fence, giving the Bruins a 2-0 lead. Guzzetti recovered nicely and didn't allow another...
...purposes of the Association are outlined in the preamble to the constitution adopted yesterday. It states: "We, the students of African descent at Harvard and Radcliffe, in order to promote mutual understanding and friendship between African and Afro-American students at Harvard and Radcliffe; to provide ourselves a voice in the Harvard and Radcliffe community by means of a publication and by means of periodic statements; and to develop the leadership capable of effectively coping with the various problems of our peoples, do hereby establish the Harvard Association of African and Afro-American Students...
...Wakeman had dropped from sight after The Hucksters, he might have been remembered as the Jack London of Manhattan's midtown. Instead, he kept on turning out novels, risking the law of averages. A Free Agent is the worst of a dreary descent. The author has lost his knack of writing badly well. Worse news, the hero is not world-wise but incredibly doltish, even allowing for the fact that he is supposed to be some kind of intelligence agent...
...current retrospective show at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum is the meeting ground for the ideas of three dead giants: Solomon Guggenheim, the copper-tycoon tastemaker; Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect; and Vasily Kandinsky, the father of abstract expressionism. For patrons making the spiral descent into the museum's terrazzo maelstrom to view the largest collection of Kandinsky oils and watercolors ever assembled, it is almost as if this were the event the three men had had in mind all along...
...Rummaging through history, Canetti cites some gory examples of crowd behavior to support his thesis. Crowds that form for the most exalted reasons can become the most murderous. Typical was an Easter service in Jerusalem in 1834. The faithful flocked to the church by the thousands to see the descent of the Holy Fire. When the "miraculous" fire appeared, people were in a frenzy to get to it. In the turmoil, two crowds squared off and started senselessly slaughtering each other until the church floor was littered with corpses...