Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ordway returned just after the second half kickoff, and Harvard stayed in command. But Brown kicked deep into the Crimson end zone, and when a Harvard back reached to touch it down and rescue the squad from trouble, it slithered out of his grasp along the spongy turf. A Bruin rugger fell on it, and suddenly...
...Harvard died near the goal line and a pass by Smith sailed over Hornblower in the end zone, so Richie Szaro came in to kick a five-yard field goal...
Early in the final quarter, however, the Terriers started from midfield and continually ripped through the right side of the Harvard defense for 45 yards on the 50-yard drive to the end zone...
...strengths, the novel also has its faults. Its ending, for instance. leaves one vaguely disappointed. Everything ends too well for the central characters. Browning, the Don. and Hod all emerge unscathed by the events of the book-as if. after The Man Who Cried I Am, Williams wanted to write a book that would end happily, or at least, not tragically. At the novel's end, the domestic scene is still exploding and another perhaps final international war (the United States versus China) is imminent: but the central characters have been removed from the scene of action...
Perhaps the denouement of the novel is the only way it could end. After the cop's assassination, all three main characters gradually slip off center stage to return to the orbit of their private lives as events move forward at their own dizzying momentum. At the end of the novel, Browning is just what he was before: a middle class black college professor, still essentially moderate but a little wiser...