Word: duked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alumni of the program include Amy Gutmann, dean of the faculty at Princeton, who founded its Center for Human Values, and Elizabeth Kiss, who is now the director of Duke University's Kenan Center for Ethics...
...food. One friend suggested settling the question of which vendor will have access to the elite Harvard market by opening up a giant mud pit outside the Science Center and charge admission for the chance to watch a representative from each of the country's major fast food chains duke it out with weapons of his or her choice. Another friend suggested opening up a seedy pool hall, while another proposed a bowling alley, or a swimming pool, or a slip and slide. From petting zoos to roller rinks, anything seemed more appealing than Loker's current incarnation...
...that this must tell us something about the soul of postmodern America. And perhaps it does. But by the end of his confused and digressive meditation, this usually mordant cultural historian looks rather like a second heavy in a Wayne western--rubbing his jaw and spitting dust as the Duke's shade strides off toward the horizon, as impervious to academic analysis as he was to a bad man's six-shooter...
...free man ranging a free and open land, the rot of the cities, the ambiguities of an intricately developed society well lost. But the description is stale and does not suit Wayne the way it does quieter, more mysterious figures like Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott. For the Duke was only intermittently like them--in The Big Trail, his first starring role, or in the starkly iconographic Hondo, which Wills unaccountably fails to mention. Mostly his character was not a man escaping civilization and its discontents but one bringing them to the wilderness. Discounting the many B westerns he made...
...tough loss to Duke last week," said freshman midfielder Chris Rollins. "They're a very good team, but we didn't play that well. We've had a good week of practice, and we're really focused. We'll definitely be ready for Cornell...