Word: ens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late fault call took the first set away from Warren Grossman and Loud, who failed to capitalize on three other set points en route to a 7-6 setback in the first set. Harvard took the second set, 7-5, but the Bruins claimed the third set after UCLA clinched the team competition with a 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 win at first doubles...
Three days later Italy disposed of Poland in the semifinal. Once again, the superhuman Rossi, who by now had become an instant celebrity, provided all the firepower the Azzuri needed. He notched both goals en route to a 2-0 Italian victory...
...last it was on to the Santa Barbara hangar to welcome the Queen on another red carpet, and back up Refugio Road, past somebody's hand-lettered WELCOME LIZ AND PHIL sign, to the Ranch in the Sky. En route Her Majesty put on rubber boots and a Burberry mackintosh; the President changed into cowboy boots, denim jacket and Western string tie. The hours of tough (and maybe gratuitously risky) travel were all for the sake of a Tex-Mex feast: tacos, enchiladas, stuffed chilies, guacamole, refried beans. Just after the Queen and Philip took off back down...
...Seltzer, who did the script for Six Weeks, and it stars Jon Voight, who loves to cry and apparently wants everyone else to join him in a grand boohoo. He plays a divorced father who takes his three children, after years of neglecting them, on a Mediterranean cruise and, en route, learns that his ex-wife has been killed in a car crash. Director Robert Lieberman overlooks no cliche and lets no banality pass him by. For collectors of awkward moments, treasures abound; but the best such moment takes place beneath the Pyramids. Nothing is permanent, Voight tells his children...
...turned to something like the 1945 Harvard Redbook version of general education which "unabashedly" defined the core of necessary knowledge as the "intellectual, political, and cultural heritage of the West." In those halcyon days, students in courses on "Great Texts in Literature" and "Western Thought and Institutions" were baptised en masse through total immersion in the great books and ideas "which have structured Western civilization...