Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea that they are being told what to do. The Faculty should have more confidence than it apparently does in the innate intellectual curiosity of most of its students. For as they well know, no bee will produce much honey on command (true, Mozart could write operas in this fashion but he was something of an exception), but if left to its own devices, the bee can produce quite remarkable results. --David H. Peipers...
Dartmouth's version of the fearsome foursome (Wendell, Awad, Banholzer and Hibbart) were awesome indeed. Jody Awad dispatched Pierpont quickly in the second slot, 6-2, 6-2, while number three Pam Banholzer defeated Meg Meyer in similar fashion...
...window. Instead, we are led to believe that Stallone's rise to power in the union is somehow grounded in his unique persuasive rhetorical abilities. One problem, however: like Stallone's Rocky, Stallone's Kovak can't really talk. He does, however, mumble a lot, and mumble in convincing fashion, as the union's membership swells to several million under his leadership. Always attuned to the needs of the rank-and-file, Stallone is also aware of the importance of "push," and consequently falls into bad company: he inadvertently sells his soul to the Mafia (in the guise of mobster...
...powerful Hoffaesque labor boss. But one cannot help but wonder why such a story is necessary, except as a vehicle for the portrayal of random, gratuitous and organized violence--both management and union-instigated--with the imprimatur of Rocky legitimacy provided by Stallone, and sealed, in absurd enough fashion, with a fist...
...Tigers seemed a sure bet to clinch the match by taking at least one of the doubles matches, and they made good on that bet in dramatic fashion when they concluded three close straight-set victories within the space of a minute...