Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot will meet Dudley in 'A' and 'B' League basketball, both games starting at 2 p.m. in the I.A.B. The Air R.O.T.C. five is to play Kirkland at 2 p.m., and a Dunster-Army duel will follow at 4 p.m. These later two games court, in official 'A' League standings...
...Crimson lost both of the 40 minute scrimmages to the fast R.I.U. team by similar ten point margins. Shepard thought the team looked worse in the second duel, however, which was played on State's narrow court immediately after a Thanksgiving practice...
...sharpest blades in 1920 Paris was a young Polish-born painter named Moise Kisling. He wore his hair in a fringe, would duel at the drop of a beret, threw strenuous parties in his shabby studios. "He's the swellest guy in the world," wrote Kiki, queen of the Montparnasse models, in her diary. Kisling returned the compliment by faithfully reproducing her generous curves in his solidly painted canvases. Last week Artist Kisling, now an energetic 60, was having his first Paris show in 15 years. To replace Kiki and his other Montparnasse models, he had called...
Author Buckley believes that "the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world . . . [and] that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level." Under the "protective label of 'academic freedom,' " says he, Yale has become "one of the most extraordinary incongruities of our time: the institution that derives its moral and financial support from Christian individualists and then addresses itself to the task of persuading the sons of these supporters to be atheistic socialists...
Buckley introduces his thesis with "I myself believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level. What I call a failure to Christianize Yale was not due to any lack of sympathy on (President Seymour's) part. It was due to the shibboleths of "academic freedom" that have so decisively hamstrung so many educators in the past fifty years...