Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyghing. Wear a log of preppie clothes; Locoste shirts and khaki pants are recommended. Topsiders are passe. Scoff at naive enthusiasm with a knowing, sardonic grin. Categorically refust to be excited or amused by anything with a knowing, sardonic grin. Categorically rufuse to be excited or amused by anything except yourself. Potential hazard: everyone will have your guts. In many cases, that's exactly what you want, because they'll never bother you again, and that's what you want...
...last note about Harvard football: the offense is something called the 'Multiflex, which just about no one understands, except to the extent that it resembles the traffic flow in Harvard Square on a Saturday afternoon. Just enjoy it--if all works well, you'll be watching the Crimson and the multiflex beat Yale for the Ivy title November 18 in Harvard Stadium...
...soccer would rank as a major sport, but for the overshadowing influence of King Football. Harvard has an especially strong team that would sport an exceptionally strong record each year except for one factor: Ivy League soccer is the toughest around...
There is nothing yet to show for all the expense except for a nine-story welded-steel skeleton. But the plans for the Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building (the Senate's third such building) call...
...Just and the Unjust (1942) and By Love Possessed (1957) about lawyers. Cozzens' plots are seamless and compelling, his protagonists unromantic, conservative and admirable for their maturity and self-discipline and for doing the best they can with what they have. "I have no thesis," he once said, "except that people get a very raw deal from life." The day before he died he looked over Just Representations, a 568-page collection of his works published last week...