Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wilkinson looked his age when he let in the press after praising his men for the game they had played. His face was drawn, his eyes were red, and his voice was very soft and tightly controlled - always a danger sign with him. Then Dallas Defensive Line Coach Ernie Stautner dropped by. "You guys deserve a lot more than you've been getting," he said, and Wilkinson's face brightened briefly...
...Blount left, Bud recalled that he had once coached Oklahoma against a Texas team that had Peppy Blount, Jeb's father, on its roster. That was 31 years ago, and Wilkinson laughed at the coincidence, and the passage of time, and the bonds of the game that had drawn him back to football...
Harvard's administrators neither defend nor criticize final clubs. Cleveland Amory wrote that Harvard officials at the time considered the clubs "a necessary evil," from which much of the University's wealth was drawn. One of Amory's friends wondered why it was necessary to have a group of men who "dress alike, look alike, walk alike, talk alike, and, if pressed, think alike...
...come as the most comprehensive account of Robert Kennedy's life. And if Kennedy could be a tough, shrewd politician, behind the calculations he had a true feeling for those on the outside--for the poor, for minorities, for the young. His life very much deserves the attention drawn to it by this new book. As pure history, the book will undoubtedly be sneered at by many. As simply a story, however, it is captivating. And as a tale of commitment and idealism told in a age that pays scant attention to those on the outside, it offers hope...
Inspiration, it would seem, consists in memory and a will to escape the sorrows of childhood: "The only way to deal with the real world was to challenge it with one of your own making." As a boy, Crews created a country drawn from the photo graphs of models in Sears, Roebuck catalogues, and the characters he conjured up were no doubt precursors of the people who dwell in his novels. But this memoir depicts them as they truly were and situ ates them in that inexhaustible literary arena, the bitter, impoverished South...