Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even the solitary act of writing is influenced by the center. "We're not writing the kind of books, unless there's some mistake, that will find their way to racks in bus stations," says Joseph Beatty, who will be teaching philosophy at Duke next year. But he finds himself thinking oddly subversive thoughts, like "I have to persuade society philosophers are needed...
...scribbles away at the obligatory manifestoes, digs in on fund raising, entertains the big-name circuit riders, like David Riesman, Jacques Barzun and Mortimer Adler, who drop by, and sends the fellows out on their own hustings, mostly to lecture at the three universities in the neighborhood: Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State. Then he taps out a memo: "Lost. Alice has asked us all to check whether her thin black-handled Henckels knife went home by mistake on a cake platter...
Saturday--For those of us who laugh at John Wayne movies, West Point remains the living realization that not everybody feels the same way we do about The Duke or life. They have signs around the coldly beautiful campus that say "Jog--It's good for you and your country." And in the top of the sixth inning in the second game of the Harvard-Army doubleheader, the timeless game of baseball was held fast so everyone could salute the flag and listen to "Taps...
...Tigers have beaten most of the best teams in the East. During their southern trip they breezed past Miami and ACC teams Duke and North Carolina. Navy gave the Tigers their biggest scare, taking the bottom four singles matches, but Princeton swept the doubles to come...
FRANK TEPEDINO. You don't remember him? Aw c'mon! Tommy Tresh, hell, he even made Rookie of the Year. No? Duke Carmel, the next DiMaggio, or Bobby Murcer, the next Mantle? Horace "Hoss" Clarke, keystone man fielding like a keystone--ricochet off the chest and take it from there--him neither? But you remember Ralph Houk, kicking the dirt; it sticks in your mind, an emblem of an era of frustration...