Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attract more icemen to the halls of Old Nassau. "From a hockey standpoint, a good player is a good player," Tiger coach Jack Semler pointed out. "The issue is, once you get into the thick of the season, how well you do academically. And we're keeping an eye on that...
...league as a whole has gotten much stronger," Toomey points out, with an eye on the non-Ivy opponents that have always allowed players to skate four years if they had the talent, "You can see the improvement by the increasing number of Ivy teams in the ECAC playoffs, and this year should be no exception...
Bafflement is surely the least obvious fault of Bashevis Singer's stories. They all resound with a clarity that comes from sparse language and a discerning eye for only the most important details. And through this clarity, a stark precision that has captured the lives of a very small segment of mankind, there comes a kind of broader perspective I can only call wisdom because it seems so rare in the modern short story...
Throughout these stories the Holocaust has left an indelible impression on the lives of its survivors, even those who escaped its wrath beforehand. So just as the first-person narrator describes a woman's eye in "Sabbath in Portugal" as having "an embarrassment and a modesty which I did not know still existed," and then recalls his first love "whom I had never dared kiss, and who had been shot by the Nazis in 1943," so too, aging Harry Bendiner in "Old Love," thinks himself a fool to believe in God "After what happened to the Jews in Europe...
...somebody will be opening up a book about me, but I don't think so for a minute. That's because communications and media have made the world so enormous and impersonal that there's not much of a chance for people to "make history." You're in the eye for a while and people ask you what you're doing and the next thing you know someone else has taken your place...