Word: duel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have two against Maine this Sunday that will really be a tougher challenge," he said. "They'll have pitchers comparable or better than Gerri." The Crimson may find itself in a pitching duel, with freshman Rubin holding the Harvard gun. But, as Wentzell says, "for a freshman to be 4-0 you have to like that...
...predicts a letdown when Harvard takes the ice against Minnesota Friday night. The Golden Gophers have knocked the Crimson out of the semis twice before, and the icemen don't plan to take Friday's duel lightly...
...answer turns out to be Le Carré. The Little Drummer Girl (its title an oblique allusion to a Christmas song set in the Holy Land) is both a daring departure from his earlier work and a triumph of narrative control. The long duel between George Smiley of British intelligence and Karla, his opposite number in the Soviet Union, came to an end in Smiley's People (1980), with Karla crossing over from East Berlin into Western arms. Le Carré's emphasis throughout the Smiley sagas was on the abstract detachment of his hero, his intellectual moves...
Williams was also a moral symbolist. His earthy characters journey over a landscape that pulses with the strife-torn dualities of human nature. The duel is between God and the Devil, love and death, the flesh and the spirit, innocence and corruption, light and darkness, the eternal Cain and the eternal Abel. In the American tradition, this links Williams to three 19th century moral symbolists: Hawthorne, Poe and Melville...
...President has until Jan. 23 to submit his semiannual certification to Congress that El Salvador's government is making progress on human rights and is carrying out land reform. Without the statement, the President must immediately cut off all military assistance. State Department officials described the Ochoa-Garcia duel as "absolutely not germane" to the certification, and said last week that the Administration would once again rule in El Salvador's favor. Washington officials noted with satisfaction that the number of politically motivated murders was now below 200 a month, down from an average of 500 a month...