Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Homeric view of man, Huxley stated, attributed both evil and heroism to "possession" by supernatural forces. When a man erred or when he accomplished some feat of great valor, the ancient Greeks believed that he was visited by spirits from the gods, who inspired...
Twice Mallory stopped charges by Crimson lineman Tadhg Sweeney, a feat reckoned nearly impossible by most Ivy League defenders. Several times he backed left wing Chris Martin and half-back Bill King into a corner and kept them there, displaying amazing anticipation...
...very failure of the attempts of Life magazine to define a single purpose. Morgenthau declared, demonstrates the impossibility of accomplishing such a feat without doing violence to the very nature of our pluralistic society...
...feat of great national significance," Mitchell was promptly awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. And General Electric Co. hinted that a Discoverer capable of carrying a small primate-probably a chimpanzee-would be ready for firing into space within a month...
...skillfully acted double bill of disenchantment: Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, in which a beaten and lonely ex-writer poignantly and often amusingly grovels in his past, paired with Edward Albee's Zoo Story, in which a desperately lonely beatnik attempts the hopeless, tragicomic feat of making human contact with a square. Up in Central Park: the final Festival offering, The Taming of the Shrew...