Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what will it take for the Quadrangle to get its fair share of renovations? One week the students could commandeer a shuttle bus; the next week Hilles; and finally, during reading period, a coordinated attack on the Quadrangle kitchens. Amid the shattering plastic and shrieks of Quaddish fervor, two hisses of rustling paper will rise to a crescendo and drown out the actual event...
Come the season's final day, after only 184 innings, he stood just 14 strikeouts from 300. During doubleheaders, minor league games are shortened to seven innings. "No way possible," Gooden thought, "can I get 14 strikeouts in seven innings." But the fervor of his teammates stirred him. "Each time I came back into the dugout, our players would count them up. It was the only game I ever played where I tried to strike out every man I faced." The Hagerstown Suns were the opponents, but Gooden remembers none of the hitters. He saw only the bats. "Every pitch...
...Dick Ebersol got the show back on a firmer, though slicker, course from which Eddie Murphy busted loose, as did his pal Joe Piscopo. Then Ebersol left, and Michaels, with a new cast and a lot of the old staff, took over again, but without the original brew of fervor and innocence...
While last year, divestment activists concentrated on recapturing the fervor of the past, this year they will be concentrating on branching out and attempting to reach a broader section of the Harvard community. Members continue to solicit alumni support two nights a week, because as Sara L. Szanton '88, SASC coordinator of the drive, says "alumni are a lot more powerful than...
...idea of the very small as metaphor of the very large without being very explicit about it. The paint surface is too rough for that: heavily worked over, it is long on touch but short on info. At the same time, its muddy strength has little of the impetuous fervor of recent neoexpressionist painting. It is crusty and rather stolid. So what is going...