Word: doings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Estrada's attempts to update the political and sexual innuendos to the world of Harvard 1979 reek of hackneyed stereotype and cheap shots; while a few of the lines succeed (Man deprived of sex: "Do you know what four years can do to a person? Another man deprived of sex...
"What they don't learn," Auerbach added, "is how to deal with people. All they do is go to cocktail parties--you'd be amazed at the number of cocktail parties--and how are they going to reach the people?"
"I tried to ship three dozen sneakers to a college in Burma once--got a company to agree to do it free. But the State Department returned the shoes to this company three times because they weren't packed right," Auerbach said with a sneer.
"Nobody else had ever been invited to the Russian army country club. But we got in there, took the place over. And then later the American ambassador snubbed us, wouldn't even get out of his chair to say hello. So what can you do?"
Auerbach said sports diplomacy would be comparatively cheap and effective. "If we flooded a country with athletes the way we do with cocktail-drinkers, it might have been a different ballgame altogether."